emirekó

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Old Tupi

Abá remirekó (someone's wife)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *embireko.[1][2][3] By surface analysis, emi- (“prefix that forms passive verbal derivatives”) +‎ erekó (“to make be with oneself, to have”), literally “what someone makes be with oneself”.[1][4] Doublet of mierekó.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní embireko.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Hyphenation: e‧mi‧re‧kó

Noun

emirekó (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute temirekó, R1 remirekó, R2 semirekó)

  1. wife
    Synonym: aty

Derived terms

Verb

emirekó (2nd class)

  1. to have wife

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aryon D. Rodrigues (1998) “Dois exercícios de etimologia Tupí: 'esposa' e 'boca'”, in MOARA. Revista dos Cursos de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UFPA (in Portuguese), number 09, Belém: UFPA, →DOI, pages 33–51
  2. ^ Charles Owen Schleicher (1998) Comparative and internal reconstruction of the Tupi-Guarani language family‎, Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison
  3. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  4. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “emirekó”, 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 100, column 2
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