piá

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pia"

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Etymology

Compare Muellama piar.

Noun

piá

  1. maize

References

  • Sergio Elías Ortiz, Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: pi‧á

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi pi'a (“son”, vocative).[1]

Noun

piá m (plural piás)

  1. (colloquial, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) kid; child
    Synonyms: menino; see also Thesaurus:menino
  2. (colloquial, vocative, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) man; dude

Adjective

piá (invariable)

  1. (colloquial, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) childish

Etymology 2

Verb

piá

  1. Eye dialect spelling of piar.

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pi'a”, 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 380, column 1

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

piá

  1. Superseded spelling of pia, which was deprecated in 2010.
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