'ar

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ar"

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔaT (“to be born, to fall”), from Proto-Tupian *ꝁaT (“to fall”).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: 'ar

Verb

'ar (first-person singular active indicative a'ar, first-person singular negative active indicative na'ari, noun 'ara) (intransitive)

  1. (with suí) to be born
  2. to emerge; to come out
  3. to happen
  4. to fall
  5. to embark
  6. (with esé) to ascertain; to understand

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Nheengatu: wari

References
  1. Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  3. Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎, 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

Further reading

Yola

Determiner

'ar

  1. Alternative form of aar (“their”)
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:
      At aar errone was var ameing 'ar 'ngish ee-height.
      That their errand was aiming to bring anguish upon them.

References
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86
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