a'e

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ae"

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aʔe (“he”).^[1]

Cognate with Guaraní ha’e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈʔɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: a‧'e

Pronoun

a'e (1st class, 3rd person singular and plural, dative i xupé, possessive i, reflexive possessive o)

1. he, she, it

   Synonyms: ãûa, erika

2. they

   Synonyms: ãûa, erika

3. (nonvisible) that; those

Descendants

• Nheengatu: aé (“he, she, it”), ⇒ aintá (“they”)

Determiner

a'e

1. (nonvisible) that; those

Adverb

a'e

1. (nonvisible) there; yonder

   Synonyms: a'epe, akoamõ, akûeîpe

2. then
3. however
4. regardless

Particle

a'e

1. used to emphasize a question
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, page 66, lines 276-278; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 123:

     Aimb. — Aepe que amboae?
     ſarau. — Caraibebe çerã
     co taba raroanete.

     [Aîmb[iré]. — A'epe ké amboaé?
     Sarau[aîa]. — Karaibebé serã / kó taba arõaneté.]

     Aîmbiré: What about the other one here?
     Sarauaîa: Perhaps it's the true guardian angel of this village.

See also

Person	Number	Nominative／Accusative			Possessive		Dative		Objective
		Subject	1st class	2nd class	Nonreflexive	Reflexive	1st class	2nd class
Singular	1st		ixé	xe			ixébe／ixébo	xebe／xebo
	2nd	îepé	endé	nde			endébe／endébo	ndebe／ndebo	oro-
Singular and Plural	3rd		a'e	i		o	i xupé
Plural	1st exc		oré				orébe／orébo
	1st inc		îandé				îandébe／îandébo
	2nd	peîepé	peẽ	pe			peẽme／peẽmo		opo-
	Indefinite		asé				asébe／asébo

    Old Tupi personal pronouns

Demonstrative Adjectives
	Visible	Nonvisible
Proximal	ã, ang, iã, iang, ikó, kó	ã, ang, iã, iang
Medial	ebokûé, ebokûeî, eboûing, eboûĩ, ûĩ	aîpó
Distal	kûé, kûeî	a'e, aîpó, akó, akûeî
Demonstrative Pronouns
	Visible	Nonvisible
Proximal	ã, ãa, ãba'e anga, angyba'e iã, iãa, iãba'e ianga, iangyba'e ikó, ikoa, ikoba'e kó, koa, koba'e	ã, ãa, ãba'e anga, angyba'e iã, iãa, iãba'e ianga, iangyba'e
Medial	ebokûé, ebokûea, ebokûeba'e ebokûeîa, ebokûeîba'e eboûinga, eboûingyba'e eboûĩ, eboûĩa, eboûĩba'e ûĩ, uĩa, uĩba'e	aîpó, aîpoa, aîpoba'e
Distal	kûé, kûea, kûeba'e kûeîa, kûeîba'e	a'e, a'ea, a'eba'e aîpó, aîpoa, aîpoba'e akó, akoa, akoba'e akûeîa, akûeîba'e

Old Tupi demonstratives

References

1. Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 158

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “a'e”, 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, pages 10–11

Scots

Numeral

a'e

1. Alternative form of ae

References

• “a'e, adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.