Guaraní
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese pai.
Noun
[edit]pa'i
Old Tupi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pa'i (unpossessable)
- mister (term of address to an adult male)
- (Christianity, Late Tupi) father (term of address to a priest)
- (Christianity, Late Tupi, by extension) priest, clergyman
- Synonym: abaré
- Xe reroketé pa'i
- the priest has truly baptized me
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: paí
Interjection
[edit]pa'i
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pa'i”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 368, column 1
Categories:
- Guaraní terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Guaraní terms derived from Portuguese
- Guaraní lemmas
- Guaraní nouns
- gn:Christianity
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/i
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/i/2 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi unpossessable nouns
- tpw:Christianity
- Late Tupi
- Old Tupi terms with usage examples
- Old Tupi interjections
- tpw:Titles
- tpw:Occupations
- tpw:People
- tpw:Religion