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Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi mba'ereme. By surface analysis, maã + ramé.
Adverb
mairamé
- (interrogative) when
2017, Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan, chapter 10, in Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu [Commented translation of the work Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French to Nheengatu] (overall work in Portuguese, French, and Nheengatu), São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, archived from the original on 2024-11-27, line 45:– Mairamé taá kwá usika kurí? – upurandú muruxawamirĩ.- – When will this happen? – asked the little prince.
- (negative) never
Conjunction
mairamé
- when
2017, Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan, chapter 1, in Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu [Commented translation of the work Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French to Nheengatu] (overall work in Portuguese, French, and Nheengatu), São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, archived from the original on 2024-11-27, line 1:Mairamé arikú puyepé akayú amaã, yepé ara, yepé sangawa amurupí retana, yepé papera resé kaawasú resewara sera waá Mbeusawa uyusasá ana waá-itá.- When I was six years old I saw, one day, a very different image, in a book about the virgin forest which had the name Stories That Happened.
Derived terms
References
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “mairamé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 436