musurana

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English

Noun

musurana (plural musuranas)

  1. Alternative form of mussurana

Old Tupi

The prisioner, at the center, tied by the musurana.

Etymology

From musu (“swamp eel”) +‎ ran (“false”) +‎ -a.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

musurana (possessable)

  1. a rope tied to the waist of the prisioner who would be killed in the anthropophagic ritual
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 64; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
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      [Kó xe musuranusu.]
      Here's my great musurana.

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: muçurana

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “musurana”, 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 320, column 2

Spanish

Noun

musurana f (plural musuranas)

  1. mussurana
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