putu'u

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtuʔu. By surface analysis, putu (breath) +‎ 'u (to eat).

    Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní pytu'u.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /putuˈʔu/
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: pu‧tu‧'u

    Noun

    putu'u (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mutu'u)

    1. rest (any relief from exertion)
    2. (Língua Geral Amazônica) Sunday[1]

    Coordinate terms

    • days of the week: porabykyara (appendix): putu'u · porabykypy · porabykymokõî · porabykymosapyr · so'opapaba · îekuakuba · sabaru [edit]
    • putugûaba

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: mituú

    Verb

    putu'u (first-person singular active indicative aputu'u, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aputu'uî, noun putu'u) (intransitive)

    1. to rest (to take repose)

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Dia de Domingo [Sunday]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 15r, column 1, line 8; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 151:mutüú [mutu'u]