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Old Tupi
Marcgrave also registers Itaque (?), with a different meaning: Itaquices being bought from Europeans, Itaque being made by them with stone (271)
Etymology
From itá + kysé. Cognate with Guajajára takihe (“knife, machete”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: i‧ta‧ky‧sé
Noun
itakysé ()
- knife
- Synonym: kysé
1578, Jean de Léry, chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 346:Ereroupè itaxé amo- Have you brought some knives?
- (strictly) stone knife (likely not actually, see note above)
- (strictly) steel knife
- Ereroupé Ytaxé amo? — Have you brought some steel knives?
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