tipiima

Nheengatu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Tupi ypy

Proto-Tupian *-eʔɨm

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-eʔɨm

Old Tupi -e'ym

Proto-Tupian *-ap

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?

Old Tupi -a

Old Tupi ypye'yma

Nheengatu tipiima

Inherited from Old Tupi typye'yma. By surface analysis, tipí +‎ -ima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tipiˈima/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: ti‧pi‧i‧ma

Noun

tipiima (uncountable)

1. shallow (shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water)

Verb

tipiima (3rd class)

1. to be shallow

References

• Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “tipiima”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 760