miaûsuba

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -uβa
  • Hyphenation: mi‧aû‧su‧ba

Etymology 1

From emi- (passive deverbal preffix) +‎ aûsub (to love) +‎ -a.[1]

Noun

miaûsuba (possessable, IId class pluriform, absolute miaûsuba, R1 remiaûsuba, R2 semiaûsuba, R3 o emiaûsuba)

  1. loved one
    • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter V, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 26v:
      Marã oicobotepe, / Ace Anhãga rẽbiauçubamo cecou?
      [Marã oîkobotepe asé Anhanga rembiaûsubamo sekóû?]
      But acting in what way, being the people Devil's loved one?

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

miaûsuba (possessable, IId class pluriform, absolute miaûsuba, R1 remiaûsuba, R2 semiaûsuba, R3 o emiaûsuba)

  1. slave
    Synonym: tapuîa
    • 1645 October 4, Antônio Filipe Camarão, Letter to Antônio Paraupaba (Camarão Indians' letters; 2), page 1:
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      [Memẽ ã karaíba nde remikugûakaturamo sekóû, nhandé resé ogû emiaûsupotaramo]
      These whites are always, as you are well aware, wanting us as their own slaves.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: emiasúa, imiasú, miasúa

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(e)miaûsuba”, 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 99, column 2