py'a

Guaraní

Noun

py'a

  1. belly, guts
  2. stomach or heart, entrails
  3. consciousness

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

py'a

  1. stomach, liver
  2. heart, especially as a source of emotions
  3. entrails

Possessed forms
    Possessed forms of py'a
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person
inclusive		 1st person
exclusive		 2nd person 3rd person
xepy'a ndepy'a ipy'a nhandepy'a orepy'a pendepy'a ipy'a

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pyʔa, *mbyʔa (“liver”), from Proto-Tupian *py(-)ʔa, *mby(-)ʔa (“liver”).[1]

Cognate with Guaraní py'a, Sateré-Mawé pyʔa, myʔa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɨˈʔa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: py‧'a

Noun

py'a (absolute my'a) (possessable)

  1. liver
  2. stomach
    Synonym: ygegûasu
  3. (broadly) bowels; entrails (the internal organs)
    Synonyms: nhy'ã, ybỹîa
  4. (figuratively) heart (source of one's feelings and emotions)
  5. (figuratively) mind; brains (source of one's thoughts and awareness)
  6. (figuratively) bowels (deepest or innermost part)

Usage notes

Tupians and other South American indigenous cultures considered the liver to be the center of emotions, much like how European cultures see the heart, which led to various translation errors and misunderstandings that were inherited by Old Tupi descendants. Heart as an organ was called nhy'ã.

  • py'aká
  • py'anhemongetá
  • py'arĩ
  • py'aûpîara
  • xe py'ape
  • xe py'ape nhote
  • xe py'apekatu

Descendants
  • Nheengatu: piá

References
  1. Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 567

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