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Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi gûasem, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *w-acẽP, from Proto-Tupian *atẽP.[1][2]
Verb
wasemu
- to find (to come across something that was unknown or had been lost)
- to find (to have the opinion that a given thing has the given quality)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
- ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “wasemu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 817