oîepé

Old Tupi

Old Tupi numbers ^(edit)

		10[a], [b]
		1	2  →	10  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: oîepé     Ordinal: ypy     Adverbial: oîepé     Collective: oîepegûasu     Fractional: gûetépe

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ojepeteĩ (“one”).

Cognate with Guaraní peteĩ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɔ.jɛˈpɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: o‧îe‧pé

Numeral

oîepé

1. one; only one
   • 1595 [1555], Joseph of Anchieta, chapter IV, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, page 9v:

     Oyepê cunhã […]

     [Oîepé kunhã […] ]

     One woman.

Derived terms

• oîepe'ĩ
• oîepeba'e
• oîepegûara
• oîepegûasu
• oîepekatu
• oîepeombé
• oîepeumbé
• oîepeîepé
• oîepeîxûara
• oîepeĩombé
• oîepébo

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: yepé

Adverb

oîepé

1. once
   • 1595 [1555], Joseph of Anchieta, chapter IV, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, page 10v:

     […] oyepêaçó […]

     [ […] oîepé asó […] ]

     I went once.

   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, Na aldeia de Guaraparim [In the village of Guaraparim], Guarapari, page 174; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

     Oîkuakumo amõ abá tekopûera oîepé'ĩ nhõmo, Tupana n'i nhyrõî xómo; i mimbáramo oîpe'a, pe ratápe nhẽ i mombómo.

     If someone hid their past acts only once, God wouldn't pardon it; He would repel them as His creation and do making them jump into your fire.

2. in unison
   • 1618, Cristóvão Valente, compiled by Antônio de Araújo, Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica […], Cantigas na lingoa pera os mininos da Sancta Doctrina (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 6:

     Peyôri apiàbetà
     Oyepé tiay moêté
     Yandé caraîbèbê

     [Peîori apŷabetá
     Oîepé t'îaîmoeté
     Îandé karaibebé]

     Come, men. We shall honor in unisson our angel.

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “oîepé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil‎^[3] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 356–357