tipiima

Nheengatu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Old Tupi ypy
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-eʔɨm
    Old Tupi -e'ym
    Proto-Tupian *-ap
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
    Old Tupi -a
    Old Tupi ypye'yma
    Nheengatu tipiima

    Inherited from Old Tupi typye'yma. By surface analysis, tipí +‎ -ima.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tipiˈima/
    • Rhymes: -ima
    • Hyphenation: ti‧pi‧i‧ma

    Noun

    tipiima (uncountable)

    1. shallow (shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water)

    Verb

    tipiima (3rd class)

    1. to be shallow

    References

    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “tipiima”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 760
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