sebo'i
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡seβoʔi (“worm”).[1]
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní evo'i and Paraguayan Guaraní sevo’i.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sebo'i (unpossessable)
- leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)
- Synonyms: terepomonga, tugûypabe'yma
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: xibuí
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sebo'i”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 440, column 1