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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kɨt͡ʃe (“knife”), from Proto-Tupian *kɨt͡ʃe (“bamboo”).
Cognate with Guaraní kyse.
Pronunciation
Noun
kysé (possessable)
- knife
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- anonymous author (1622) “Faca”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 133: “Quigcê [Kysé]”
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 271: “Itaquice […] Taquoaquice [Itakysé […] Takûakysé]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kysé”, 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 248, column 2