kesaba
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ker (“to sleep”) + -sab (instrumentalizer suffix) + -a, literally “sleeping place”.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kesaba (possessable)
- hammock
- 1595 [1555], Joseph of Anchieta, chapter X, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, page 44:
- Eyotĩ de queçába, xeporupî.
- [Eîotĩ nde kesaba xe porupi]
- Tie your hammock next to me.
- perch (rod used used as a roost by birds)[2]
- Synonym: endaba
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: kisawa
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kesaba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 227, column 1
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Poleiro”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 80: “Cendaba […] Queçaba. [Sendaba […] Kesaba.]”