kisé

Nheengatu

Inherited from Old Tupi kysé (“knife”), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kɨt͡ʃe (“knife”), from Proto-Tupian *kɨt͡ʃe (“bamboo”).^[1]

IPA^(key): /kiˈse/^[2]
- (Rio Negro, Solimões) IPA^(key): [kiˈsɛ]
- (Middle Amazon) IPA^(key): [kɨˈse]
Rhymes: -e
Hyphenation: ki‧sé

kisé (plural kisé-itá)

knife
- 1890 [1872–1887], “Micura ariambá irumo [The opossum and the kingfisher]” (chapter XV), in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, page 193:
  U pecêca quicé umboé pirá maricá, u acema, paá, çateua micura pirá maricá opé, u manu u putare uana.
  He took the knife, cut open the fish's belly and found, they say, his opossum father-in-law about to die inside it.

^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kisé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 393
^ Raynice Geraldine Pereira da Silva, Aline da Cruz, Michéli de Deus Lima Schwade (2020) “Descrição e documentação fonológica das variedades do nheengatu no Amazonas”, in Revista De Letras Norte@mentos (in Portuguese), volume 13, number 33, →DOI