a'y
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ay"
Cornish
Etymology 1
Contraction
a'y (triggers soft mutation)
Etymology 2
Contraction
a'y (triggers aspirate mutation)
Mbya Guarani
Noun
a'y (non-possessed form ta'y)
- son (said by a man)
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person inclusive |
1st person exclusive |
2nd person | 3rd person |
| xera'y | ndera'y | ha'y | nhandera'y | orera'y | pendera'y | ha'y |
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
| Historical spellings | |
|---|---|
| Thevet (1575) | haüt |
| Léry (1578) | hay |
| VLB (1622) | aig |
| Marcgrave (1648) | ai |
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aʔɨ, from Proto-Tupian *aʔi. Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani a'i.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈʔɨ]
- Rhymes: -ɨ
- Hyphenation: a‧'y
Noun
a'y (unpossessable)
- brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
- [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CVII, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 236:
- N’estes matos se cria um animal mui estranho, a que os indios chamam ahy, e os portuguezes preguiça […] ; o qual é felpudo como cão d’agua, e do mesmo tamanho; e tem a cor cinzenta, os braços e pernas grandes, com pouca carne, e muita lã; tem as unhas como cão e muito voltadas; a cabeça como gato, mas coberta de gadelhas que lhe cobrem os olhos; os dentes como gato.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
- [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter I (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 221:
- AI Braſilienſibus, Lufitanis Priguiza, Noſtratibus Luyaert / id eſt, Ignavus: animal magnitudine mediocris Vulpis noſtratis […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
Usage notes
Both Navarro and Papavero & Teixeira identify the species as Bradypus tridactylus,[1][2] whose range is restricted to Northern Amazon. It's much more likely that contemporary writers described the Bradypus variegatus, found in practically all the Tupi-speaking area.
Descendants
References
- ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “a'y”, 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 74, column 2
- ^ Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 257
- André Thevet (1557–1558), chapter 52, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 99: “Haüt [A'y]”
- André Thevet (1575), chapter XIII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d'André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 940v: “Haüt [A'y]”
- Jean de Léry (1578), chapter X, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 165: “Hay [A'y]”
- anonymous author (1622), “Perguissa, pello animal assi chamado [Sloth, the so called animal]”, 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 73: “Aig [A'y]”