kuîa

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Old Tupi[edit]

kuîa

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ja/
  • Rhymes: -uja
  • Hyphenation: ku‧îa

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuja (calabash).[1]

Cognate with Tocantins Asurini kosa, Cocama kuja, Aurá kwi and Tembé kuj.

Noun[edit]

kuîa (IId class pluriform, absolute kuîa, R1 rekuîa, R2 sekuîa, R3 o ekuîa) (possessable)

  1. calabash (fruit of the calabash tree Crescentia cujete)
  2. calabash (container made of this fruit)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Nheengatu: kuya
  • Portuguese: cuia, cuya
    • Hunsrik: Kui

Etymology 2[edit]

From kuî (to fall) +‎ -a.

Noun[edit]

kuîa (possessable)

  1. fall, in the sense of detaching from something

References[edit]

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000-03-17), “Capítulo III - Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos”, in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 173

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