asé

asé

1. first-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of asar

asé (1st class, 3rd person indefinite, dative asébe／asébo)

1. indefinite pronoun, refering to humanity as a whole
   1. one; the people
      • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Batismo]”, in [Doutrina Cristã]; republished as Armando Cardoso, compiler, Doutrina Cristã: Catecismo brasílico, volume 1, São Paulo: Loyola, 1992, →ISBN, page 202, line 19:

        M Setápe asé ñemongaraíbi?
        D Aáni: ojepéñó osý suí asé séma jabé, akuéia jabé ojepéñó asé ñemongaraíbi.

        [M[estre] Setápe asé nhemongaraíbi?
        D[iscípulo] Aani: oîepé nhõ o sy asé sema îabé, akueîa îabé oîepé nhõ asé nhemongaraíbi.]

        Master: Do the people baptize themselves many times?
        Disciple: Not at all: the same way one is born only once from their mother, the same way one baptize themselves only once.

      • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter IV, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 33v:

        Acè cîramo bè, emonánámoe, / Xe cî acê eû, y xupê.

        [Asé syramo bé, emonãnamo é xe sy asé 'eû i xupé.]

        [She's] the people's mother too, that's why one says “my mother” to her.

   2. one's; the people's
      • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter XXVIII, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], page 28v, lines 29–32; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 66:

        Morauçubarecoçape
        aceanga erejoçub
        Eimoinge pai JEſV
        nde membira xepigape

        [Moraûsubarekosápe / asé 'anga ereîosub / Eîmoingé pa'i Jesus / nde membyra xe py'ape]

        Because you have mercy, you visit the people's souls. You make your son Lord Jesus enter in my heart.

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “asé”, 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 65, columns 1–2

asé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of asar