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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

A Brazilian fowl of the spoon-bill kind, and resembling that bird in form and size.

See also: aia, Aia, AIA, ăia, and -aia

aîa

The stem aîa could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. In predicative position, the form taîa was used for animate subjects, and saîa for inanimate subjects. When modifying nouns, the noun itself would be agglutinated with the adjective (as nouns always precede adjectives in Tupi).

LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.