a'e
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ae"
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aʔe (“he”).[1]
Pronunciation
editPronoun
edita'e (1st class, 3rd person singular and plural, possessive i, reflexive possessive o, dative i xupé)
Descendants
editDeterminer
edita'e
Adverb
edita'e
Particle
edita'e
- (before a phrase) used to emphasize a question
- 2013 [1999], Joseph of Anchieta, edited by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro de Anchieta, quoted in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil, São Paulo: Global Editora, page 11, column 2:
- — A'epe ké amboaé?
— Karaibebé serã...- — What about this one?
— Perhaps it's the angel...
- — What about this one?
Usage notes
editUsed simmilarly to Latin numquid, Japanese ね, and English innit as an emphasis to the thing being asked, usually being ignored when translating to other languages. Since it comes at the beginning of a question, it's always followed by the particle -pe.
See also
editOld Tupi demonstratives
Demonstrative Adjectives | ||
---|---|---|
Visible | Nonvisible | |
Proximal | ã, ang, iã, iang, ikó, kó | ã, ang, iã, iang |
Medial | ebokûé, ebokûeî, eboûing, eboûĩ, ûĩ | aîpó |
Distal | kûé, kûeî | a'e, aîpó, akó, akûeî |
Demonstrative Pronouns | ||
Visible | Nonvisible | |
Proximal | ã, ãa, ãba'e anga, angyba'e iã, iãa, iãba'e ianga, iangyba'e ikó, ikoa, ikoba'e kó, koa, koba'e |
ã, ãa, ãba'e anga, angyba'e iã, iãa, iãba'e ianga, iangyba'e |
Medial | ebokûé, ebokûea, ebokûeba'e ebokûeîa, ebokûeîba'e eboûinga, eboûingyba'e eboûĩ, eboûĩa, eboûĩba'e ûĩ, uĩa, uĩba'e |
aîpó, aîpoa, aîpoba'e |
Distal | kûé, kûea, kûeba'e kûeîa, kûeîba'e |
a'e, a'ea, a'eba'e aîpó, aîpoa, aîpoba'e akó, akoa, akoba'e akûeîa, akûeîba'e |
References
editFurther reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “a'e”, 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, pages 10–11
- http://tupi.fflch.usp.br/
Scots
editNumeral
edita'e
- Alternative form of ae
References
edit- “a'e, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Categories:
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ/2 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi pronouns
- Old Tupi personal pronouns
- Old Tupi determiners
- Old Tupi adverbs
- Old Tupi particles
- Old Tupi terms with quotations
- Scots lemmas
- Scots numerals