kapi'i
Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kapiʔi.[1] By surface analysis, ka'a (“leaf”) + po'i (“slender”).[2]
Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani kapi'i.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kapi'i (unpossessable)
- grass (ground cover plant)
- herb (plant whose stem is not woody)
- Synonym: ka'a
- hay (grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder)
- thatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mello, Antônio Augusto Souza (2000), “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos [Lexical reconstructions and cognates]” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais [Historical study of the Tupi-Guarani language family: phonological and lexical aspects][1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
- ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “kapi'i”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 217, column 2
Categories:
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi compound terms
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/i
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/i/3 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi unpossessable nouns
- tpw:Grasses
- tpw:Building materials
- tpw:Roofing
- tpw:Agriculture