paîa

Adapted borrowing of Portuguese pai (“father”) +‎ -a (nominal suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaj.a]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: paî‧a

paîa (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica, Língua Geral Paulista)

1. father

   Synonym: uba

   • 1750s, anonymous author, “Da Creaçaõ do primeiro Homem” (chapter 4), in “Do que pertence a Fé / Dos mysterios, q̃ se contem no Credo” (book 1), in Doutrina christaã em lingoa geral dos Indios do Estado do Brasil e Maranhaõ [Christian doctrine in the general language of the Indians of the state of Brazil and Maranhão]‎^[1] (overall work in Latin and Língua Geral Amazônica), folio 15v:

     Abápe erimbäé Tupána omonháng ypŷ ybŷpóraráma? / R. Jandé Paýypŷ. / v jandé Ramúyypŷ

     [Abápe erimba'e Tupana omonhangypy yby pora-rama? / R. Îandé Paîypy. / v îandé Ramuîypy]

     Whom formerly did God make first as an inhabitant of the earth? / A. Our first Father. / or: Our first Grandfather

   • 1750s, anonymous author, “De Spe et de Pater noster” (chapter 1), in “De pertinentibus ad Spem” (book 2), in Doutrina christaã em lingoa geral dos Indios do Estado do Brasil e Maranhaõ [Christian doctrine in the general language of the Indians of the state of Brazil and Maranhão]‎^[2] (overall work in Latin and Língua Geral Amazônica), folio 46v:

     Oré Paýa, ybâkype ereicóbäé &c

     [Oré Paîa, ybakype ereîkoba'e etc.]

     Our Father, who in heaven art etc.

   • a. 1756, Anton Meisterburg, “Pay”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 30v, column 1, line 20; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 213:

     xepaia

     [xe paîa]

     my father

• Nheengatu: paya

• Arronches, João de (1739), “PAI”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 240: “páya”
• Frei Onofre (1751), “Pai”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 58, column 1: “Páya”
• Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Pay”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 30v, column 1, line 20; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 213: “paia”
• anonymous author (c. 1757), “Pai”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 143: “paŷá”
• anonymous author (18th century), “Pay”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[3] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 53: “Paya”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “pai”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, July 1936, page 161: “PÁYA”