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iii. yeneikua RasusanaRaSi, cruzaRi tak1tamai RaumanuRaSi 1m1nua (muRa).
yene= =ikua Ra= susana 196 =RaSi cruz =aRi tak1ta
1pl.incl= =reas 3sg.ms= suffer =nass cross =loc.diff nail
=mai Ra= umanu =RaSi 1m1nua muRa 197 .
=inact.nomz 3sg.ms= die =nass long.ago 3sg.ms
close: ‘Suffering for us, dying long ago nailed to the cross.’
target: ‘Suffering for us, dying nailed to the cross.’
spanish: ‘Padeciendo y muriendo clavado en una cruz por nosotros.’
(6.17) a. i. Mania huassu Jesu Xto.-Dios raschi raumanuemenua?
ii. Maniahuassu Jesu Xto.-Diosraschi ra umanu emenua?
iii. maniawasu jesucristo DiosRaSi Raumanu 1m1nua?
mania
how
=wasu
=aug
jesucristo Dios =RaSi Ra= umanu 1m1nua
Jesus.Christ God =nass 3sg.ms= die long.ago
close: ‘How did Jesus Christ, being God, die long ago?’
target: ‘How did Jesus Christ, being God, die?’
spanish: ‘¿Cómo Jesucristo murió siendo Dios (inmortal)?’
b. i. (Con letras desvaídas: R: Aguacai ruana pure (?) Roaya.) R: Dios caisuara purai
raumanua menua.
ii. Aguacairuanapure (?) Roaya. Dioscaisuara purai raumanu amenua.
iii. awakaisuaRapuRa. Roaya DioskaisuaRa puRai Raumanu 1m1nua. 198
awa =kai =suaRa =puRa
man =? 199 =advblzr =foc
Roaya
neg
Dios =kai =suaRa 200 puRai Ra= umanu 1m1nua
God =? =advblzr contr.foc 3sg.ms= die long.ago
close: ‘As a man. He did not die as God long ago.’
target: ‘As a man. He did not die as God.’
spanish: none
195 This is the only attestation of maRiamai as a manner interrogative word. Elsewhere in these texts, as in modern
Omagua, manner interrogatives are expressed with mania. An alternative interpretation is that the the word in
the original manuscript was actually maniamai, where what has been interpreted as an in
was actually an in the original manuscript. However, maniamai is attested elsewhere in these texts meaning
‘which (one)’, and in modern Omagua as ‘what type (of thing)’. This would not be a great improvement over
the choice of maRiamai, given that response to this question clearly indicates that maRiamai is intended to mean
‘how’. Consequently, we gloss it as such.
196 The verb root susana is not attested in modern Omagua, but it has cognates in other Tupí-Guaraní languages,
e.g., Tupinambá osaN ‘suffer’ (Lemos Barbosa 1951:118).
197 The 3sg.ms pronoun muRa is not grammatically obligatory in this context, which we suppose accounts for the fact
that it is enclosed in parentheses in the original manuscript.
198 The copyist of the manuscript appears to have erred in identifying the break between these two sentences, and
we have repartitioned them between the second and third lines of our multilinear representation in order that
the partitioned sentences make more sense in the broader doctrinal context. The principal source of confusion
are the words , which appear with the annotation con letras desvaídas ‘with faded words’,
perhaps indicating a subsequent addition or correction. The transcriber appears to have interpreted
as belonging to these ‘faded’ words, and not to the other adjacent material, resulting in a rather doctrinally
problematic sentence. In particular, under the problematic partitioning, the sentence reads that Jesus died as a
god, rather than as a man, as is doctrinally correct. Note that under the partition we propose, Roaya appears
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