a'e

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

Cognate with Guaraní ha’e.

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

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

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

a'e

1. (nonvisible) that; those

a'e

1. (nonvisible) there; yonder

   Synonyms: a'epe, akoamõ, akûeîpe

2. then
3. however
4. regardless

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.

• 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

a'e

1. Alternative form of ae

• “a'e, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.