obá
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Old Tupi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *toβa (“face”), from Proto-Tupian *jəba (“face, forehead”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
obá (IIa class pluriform, absolute tobá, R1 robá, R2 sobá) (possessable)
- face (front part of the head of a human or animal)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Nheengatu: suá
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “obá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 353, column 2
Categories:
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupian
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupian
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/a
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/a/2 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi IIa class nouns
- Old Tupi possessable nouns
- Old Tupi pluriform nouns
- tpw:Face