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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From mo- (causative voice prefix) + ting (“white”).
Verb
moting (first-person singular active indicative aîmoting, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmotingi, noun motinga) (transitive)
- to whiten
- Synonym: momoroting
- (Late Tupi, hapax) to whitewash; to lime[1]
Descendants
Etymology 2
From mo- (causative voice prefix) + ting (“nauseous”). Cognate with Guaraní motĩ.
Verb
moting (first-person singular active indicative aîmoting, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmotingi, noun motinga) (transitive)
- to nauseate (to feel nausea)
Conjugation
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
References
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Cayar, ou branquear como quer”, 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 62: “Aimoting [Aîmoting]”