peteĩ

Kaiwá

Numeral

peteĩ

  1. one

Derived terms

Adverb

peteĩ

  1. singly

References

  • 2010 (originally 1966), John Michael Taylor, Statement of Kaiwá Grammar from Clause to Morpheme Level, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 45.

Mbya Guarani

Numeral

peteĩ

  1. one

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ojepeteĩ (“one”).[1][2] The use as an article is a semantic loan from Spanish un, una.

Cognate with Old Tupi oîepé, Guajajára pitài, Kaiwá peteĩ, and Mbya Guarani peteĩ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peteˈĩ/, [pẽ̞tẽ̞ˈĩ]
  • Rhymes: -ĩ

Numeral

peteĩ

  1. one

Derived terms

Terms derived from the numeral peteĩ

Article

peteĩ

  1. a, an
    • 2008, “Reforestemos Paraguay”, in REFOPAR‎[2] (overall work in Spanish), archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
      Paraguái, ha'e peteĩ tetã mitã pyahu oĩpotáva omohesãi jey, opa yvy apére oĩva ha oikovéva.
      Paraguay, a country with young people who are willing to give nature a helping hand.

References

  1. ^ Mello, Antônio Augusto Souza (2000), “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos [Lexical reconstructions and cognates]” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais [Historical study of the Tupi-Guarani language family: phonological and lexical aspects]‎[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  2. ^ Lemle, Miriam (1971), “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29), volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma
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