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)
- to scrub (to rub hard for the purpose of cleaning or brightening)
- to burnish; to polish
- to smoothen[1]
- Synonym: mosym
- to anoint
- Synonyms: mongy, pitub, pixyb
Conjugation
Conjugation of kytyk (transitive, consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
| Causative | kytykukar | |||||
| Causative-comitative | erokytyk | |||||
| Reflexive | îekytyk | |||||
| Deverbals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -ba'e | oîkytykyba'e | |||||
| emi- | emingytyka / mingytyka | |||||
| -pyr(a) | i kytykypyra | |||||
| -sab(a) | kytykaba | |||||
| -sar(a) | kytykara | |||||
| Singular | Singular & Plural | Plural | ||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person exclusive | 1st person inclusive | 2nd person | |
| Verbal forms | ||||||
| Active | ||||||
| Indicative | aîkytyk | ereîkytyk | oîkytyk | oroîkytyk | îaîkytyk | peîkytyk |
| Permissive | t'aîkytyk | t'ereîkytyk | t'oîkytyk | t'oroîkytyk | t'îaîkytyk | ta peîkytyk |
| Imperative | eîkytyk | peîkytyk | ||||
| Negative indicative | n'aîkytyki | n'ereîkytyki | n'oîkytyki | n'oroîkytyki | n'îaîkytyki | na peîkytyki |
| Negative permissive | t'aîkytyk umẽ | t'ereîkytyk umẽ | t'oîkytyk umẽ | t'oroîkytyk umẽ | t'îaîkytyk umẽ | ta peîkytyk umẽ |
| Negative imperative | eîkytyk umẽ | peîkytyk umẽ | ||||
| Nominal forms | ||||||
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Affirmative | kytyka | |||||
| Negative | kytyke'yma | |||||
| Gerund | ||||||
| Affirmative | xe kytyka | nde kytyka | i kytyka | oré kytyka | îandé kytyka | pe kytyka |
| Negative | xe kytyke'yma | nde kytyke'yma | i kytyke'yma | oré kytyke'yma | îandé kytyke'yma | pe kytyke'yma |
| Circumstantial | ||||||
| Affirmative | xe kytyki | i kytyki | oré kytyki | îandé kytyki | ||
| Negative | xe kytyke'ymi | i kytyke'ymi | oré kytyke'ymi | îandé kytyke'ymi | ||
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kytyk”, 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, page 249, column 1