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Old Tupi
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese salvage (“savage”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
saraûaîa (?)
- (Late Tupi) savage
16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter 27, in , page 27v, lines 37–40; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 569:ſarauayamo oroico
caape oroyemonhãga
oroju nde momorãga
ore aiba reropo.- [Saraûaîamo oroîkó,
ka'ape oroîemonhanga.
Oroîu nde momoranga,
oré aíba reropó.] - Savages we are,
for being born in the woods.
We came to celebrate you,
casting away our wickedness.
References
- ^ 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
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