amỹîa

• amũîa, amỹnha

• IPA^(key): [ãˈmɨ̃.ja]
• Rhymes: -ɨ̃ja
• Hyphenation: a‧mỹ‧îa

amỹîa (IIb class pluriform, absolute tamỹîa, R1 ramỹîa, R2 tamỹîa, female equivalent aryîa) (possessable)

1. grandfather
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 60; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

     I kaûĩgûasupipó xe ramũîa Îagûaruna? Ene'ĩ! T'asabeypó! Erĩ! Aûîeté p'akó, aîegûak ûinhemoúna...

     By the way, does my grandpa Îagûaruna have much cauim? Come on, I'm gonna get drunk! Wait! Actually, I must adorn myself with black paint...

   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Preguntas ſobre o Quuarto Mandamento” (chapter V), in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica […], Livro Sexto do Confessionário [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 100v, line 7:

     Ereyoiaipe, ereyaópe, ereyangaópe nde ruba, de cî, nde ramuya, nde ariya?

     [Ereîoîaîpe, ereîa'ope, ereîanga'ope nde ruba, nde sy, nde ramũîa, nde aryîa?]

     Have you befooled, dishonoured, vituperated your father, your mother, your grandfather, your grandmother?

amỹîa (IIb class pluriform, absolute tamỹîa, R1 ramỹîa, R2 tamỹîa) (possessable)

1. ancestor; foreparent
   • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 132:

     O pap cheramouyn maè pouaire aitih.

     [Opá xe ramỹîa ma'epûera aîtyk.]

     I've thrown away all my ancestors old belongings.

• Appendix:Old Tupi terms of family and kinship

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “amỹîa”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 34, column 2