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Old Tupi
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cavalo, from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Latin caballus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kaballos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: ka‧ba‧ru
Noun
kabaru (unpossessable)
- horse (Equus ferus caballus)
1622, anonymous author, “Sella do caualo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume II (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 115; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:Cabarû repanacû.- [Kabaru repanaku.]
- Horse saddle.
c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 66:Cabarú çoce.- [Kabaru sosé.]
- On the horse.
Descendants
References
- Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cavallo”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 9v, column 1, line 178; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 129: “cabarú [kabaru]”
- Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 385
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kabaru”, 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 210, column 2