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Old Tupi
Etymology
Causative of atã, from mo- (causative voice prefix) + atã (“strong, hard, stiff, straight”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ.aˈtã/
- Rhymes: -ã
- Hyphenation: mo‧a‧tã
Verb
moatã (first-person singular active indicative aîmoatã, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmoatãî, noun moatã) (transitive)
- to harden (to make something hard or harder)
- to unfold (to undo a folding)[1]
- Synonym: pysó
- to widen (to make wide or wider)
Conjugation
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Descendants
References
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Estender o q. estaua dobrado ou enrolado ou encolhido”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 128: “Aimoatã [Aîmoatã]”