Old Tupi

Noun

eõ

1. death.
   • 1618, Araújo (Antônio de), Catecismo na Língua Brasílica, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Rio, 1952), page 315:

     Opá t-eõ îandé mo-ndyk-i.

     Death destroys us all.

Usage notes

• The stem eõ could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form t-eõ was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

Verb

eõ

1. To die.

Usage notes

• For inanimate subjects, s-eõ was used, and for animate subjects, t-eõ.
• These forms were only used in infinitive and other conjugations derived from infinitive. In the indicative, imperative and gerund, the stem was manó.

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.