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Old Tupi
Etymology
From sûasu (“deer”) + eté (“true”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: sûa‧su‧e‧té
Noun
sûasueté (unpossessable)
- Synonym of sûasupytanga (“red brocket”)
References
- Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Corços”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 37; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 103, line 946: “çuaçuete [sûasueté]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sûasueté”, 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 446, column 1
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 248