umã

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Old Tupi

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umã

  1. already
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 26; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      Derori
      tiniçemumã caõy
      [Nde rory
      Tynysem umã kaûĩ]
      Be happy
      The cauim already overflows

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