sygûasumẽ
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Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Spanish Jesuit missionary Joseph of Anchieta, from sygûasu (“deer”) + mẽ (“baa, cry of a goat”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sygûasumẽ (unpossessable)
- goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)
- Synonyms: kabará, syûasumibaba
- 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Polo moleiro”, in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, Helder Perri Ferreira, compilers, Poemas: lírica portuguesa e tupi (Poetas do Brasil; 5), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, published 2004, →ISBN, page 164:
- […] sygûasumé rerekoara oîosupotá o îara […]
- The goatherds want to visit their Lord.
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: suasumé
References
[edit]- ^ Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan (2017) Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , page 189
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sygûasumẽ”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 450, columns 1–2