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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm, from Proto-Tupian *pe.
Cognate with Guaraní petỹ.
Pronunciation
Noun
petyma (possessable)
- tobacco (any plant in the genus Nicotiana)
c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 148; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:— Ererupe nde petyma?
— Kó bé. Xe ratáte ogûé.
— Na sasyî. Ne'ĩne endé, enhana seru nhemima; mbype emondarõ sesé.
— Irõ! Xe îar, abebé. Kó tatá xe soagûera.
— Eẽ, ké Tatapytera t'ogûapyk, ûĩme endé, iké Moroupîarûera.
- — Did you bring your tobacco? / — Here. But my fire went out. / — No problem. You there, go bring it in hiding; steal it from around here. / Here I am! My master, I flew. Here is the fire I went after. / — Yes, Tatapytera shall sit here, you there, Moroupîarûera here.
- (by extension) cigar smoke
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