sarigûeîa

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• sarigûé, sariûé

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní sarigue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa.ɾiˈɡʷɛ.ja]
• Rhymes: -ɛja
• Hyphenation: sa‧ri‧gûe‧îa

Noun

sarigûeîa (male equivalent taîyby) (unpossessable)

1. female large American opossum (any mammal in the genus Didelphis)

   Meronym: ambeaîó (“marsupium”)

   • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter 10, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 161:

     […] Sarigoy […]

     [ […] Sarigûé […] ]

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 42; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

     Erĩ, sarigûeîa é!

     Ay, opossum!

Derived terms

• sarigûeîmbeîu

Descendants

• Nheengatu: sariwé
• → Brazilian Portuguese: saruê, saiguê, sarigueia

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sarigûeîa”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 439, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 252