moporang
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editCausative of porang, from mo- (causative voice prefix) + porang (“beautiful”).
Verb
editmoporang (first-person singular active indicative aîmoporang, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmoporangi, gerund moporanga, noun moporanga) (transitive)
- to beautify
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of moporang (transitive, consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
References
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “moporang”, 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 310, column 2