wasemu

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Nheengatu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi gûasem, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *w-acẽP, from Proto-Tupian *atẽP.[1][2]

Verb

wasemu

  1. to find (to come across something that was unknown or had been lost)
  2. to find (to have the opinion that a given thing has the given quality)

Conjugation

Conjugation of wasemu
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative affirmative awasemu rewasemu uwasemu yawasemu pewasemu uwasemu
negative ti awasemu ti rewasemu ti uwasemu ti yawasemu ti pewasemu ti uwasemu
imperative affirmative rewasemu yawasemu pewasemu
negative te rewasemu te yawasemu te pewasemu

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “wasemu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 817
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