a'e
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ae"
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aʔe (“he”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈʔɛ]
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: a‧'e
Pronoun
a'e (1st class, 3rd person singular and plural, dative i xupé, possessive i, reflexive possessive o)
Descendants
Determiner
a'e
Adverb
a'e
- (nonvisible) there; yonder
- Synonyms: a'epe, akoamõ, akûeîpe
- then
- however
- regardless
Particle
a'e
- used to emphasize a question
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 66, lines 276-278; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 123:
- Aimb. — Aepe que amboae?
ſarau. — Caraibebe çerã
co taba raroanete.- [Aîmb[iré]. — A'epe ké amboaé?
Sarau[aîa]. — Karaibebé serã / kó taba arõaneté.] - Aîmbiré: What about the other one here?
Sarauaîa: Perhaps it's the true guardian angel of this village.
- [Aîmb[iré]. — A'epe ké amboaé?
See also
Old Tupi personal pronouns
| Person | Number | Nominative/Accusative | Possessive | Dative | Objective | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | 1st class | 2nd class | Nonreflexive | Reflexive | 1st class | 2nd class | |||
| Singular | 1st | ixé | xe | ixébe/ixébo | xebe/xebo | ||||
| 2nd | îepé | endé | nde | endébe/endébo | ndebe/ndebo | oro- | |||
| Singular and Plural | 3rd | a'e | i | o | i xupé | ||||
| Plural | 1st exc | oré | orébe/orébo | ||||||
| 1st inc | îandé | îandébe/îandébo | |||||||
| 2nd | peîepé | peẽ | pe | peẽme/peẽmo | opo- | ||||
| Indefinite | asé | asébe/asébo | |||||||
Old Tupi demonstratives
| Demonstrative Adjectives | ||
|---|---|---|
| Visible | Nonvisible | |
| Proximal | ã, ang, iã, iang, ikó, kó | ã, ang, iã, iang |
| Medial | ebokûé, ebokûeî, eboûing, eboûĩ, ûĩ | aîpó |
| Distal | kûé, kûeî | a'e, aîpó, akó, akûeî |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | ||
| Visible | Nonvisible | |
| Proximal | ã, ãa, ãba'e anga, angyba'e iã, iãa, iãba'e ianga, iangyba'e ikó, ikoa, ikoba'e kó, koa, koba'e |
ã, ãa, ãba'e anga, angyba'e iã, iãa, iãba'e ianga, iangyba'e |
| Medial | ebokûé, ebokûea, ebokûeba'e ebokûeîa, ebokûeîba'e eboûinga, eboûingyba'e eboûĩ, eboûĩa, eboûĩba'e ûĩ, uĩa, uĩba'e |
aîpó, aîpoa, aîpoba'e |
| Distal | kûé, kûea, kûeba'e kûeîa, kûeîba'e |
a'e, a'ea, a'eba'e aîpó, aîpoa, aîpoba'e akó, akoa, akoba'e akûeîa, akûeîba'e |
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “a'e”, 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, pages 10–11
Scots
Numeral
a'e
- alternative form of ae
References
- “a'e, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.