kytyk

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɨˈtɨk/
  • Rhymes: -ɨk
  • Hyphenation: ky‧tyk

Verb

kytyk (first-person singular active indicative aîkytyk, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîkytyki, noun kytyka) (transitive)

  1. to scrub (to rub hard for the purpose of cleaning or brightening)
  2. to burnish; to polish
  3. to smoothen[1]
    Synonym: mosym
  4. to anoint
    Synonyms: mongy, pitub, pixyb

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ anonymous author (1622) “Liso fazer assi”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 23:Aicutuc [Aîkutuk]