asébe
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Etymology
From asé (“one, people”, indefinite personal pronoun) + -pe (“to”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈsɛ.βɛ]
- Rhymes: -ɛβɛ
- Hyphenation: a‧sé‧be
Pronoun
asébe
- dative of asé
See also
| Number | Person | Nominative / Accusative | Possessive | Dative | Objective | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | 1st class | 2nd class | Nonreflexive | Reflexive | 1st class | 2nd class | |||
| Singular | 1st | ixé | xe | ixébe / ixébo | xebe / xebo | ||||
| 2nd | îepé | endé | nde | endébe / endébo | ndebe / ndebo | oro- | |||
| Singular and Plural | 3rd | a'e | i | o | i xupé | ||||
| Plural | 1st exc. | oré | orébe / orébo | ||||||
| 1st inc. | îandé | îandébe / îandébo | |||||||
| 2nd | peîepé | peẽ | pe | peẽme / peẽmo | opo- | ||||
| Indefinite | asé | asébe / asébo | |||||||
Further reading
- Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “asébe”, 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 65, column 2