mungitá

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

  • mukitá

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi mongetá.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mũɡiˈta/
  • Rhymes: -a

Verb

mungitá

  1. (transitive) to advise (to give advice to)
  2. (transitive) to seduce (to entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship)
  3. (transitive) to flirt (to play at courtship)
  4. (ambitransitive, Lower Amazon) to read
    Synonyms: maã, yumbué
    • 2016, chapter 4, in Florêncio Almeida Vaz Filho, Antônio Fernandes Góes Neto, editors, Nheengatu Tapajowara, 2nd edition (overall work in Nheengatu and Portuguese), Santarém: SELO Gráfica, →ISBN, page 30:
      Pesikári remupinima marandúa mayé remungitá waá.
      Search and write a history like the one you read.

Conjugation

Conjugation of mungitá
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative affirmative amungitá remungitá umungitá yamungitá pemungitá umungitá
negative ti amungitá ti remungitá ti umungitá ti yamungitá ti pemungitá ti umungitá
imperative affirmative remungitá yamungitá pemungitá
negative te remungitá te yamungitá te pemungitá
  • mungitasara
  • mungitasawa
  • mungitawera
  • piamungitá
  • purungitá
  • yumungitá

References

  • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “mungitá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 520
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