Where does “nitiû” come from?

nitiû (Old Tupi) comes from Old Tupi tyb, from Old Tupi tyba, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

nitiû (Old Tupi): not

Definitions

  1. not

Ancestry of “nitiû”, step by step

nitiû traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Tupi tyb

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupitybthere be
2Old Tupitybagathering
3Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix

via Old Tupi i

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupiihe, she, they, it
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi tyba →