sarigûeîa

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate with Guaraní sarigue.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -ɛja
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ri‧gûe‧îa

Noun

sarigûeîa (unpossessable, male equivalent taîyby)

  1. female large American opossum (any mammal in the genus Didelphis)
    Meronym: ambeaîó (marsupium)
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço” (chapter XLIV), in , Niterói, page 71, lines 483–493; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 133:
      Anjo. Baepe que tuj opica?
      Andira ruâpee.
      Panama, coipo guaiquica?
      enero, cururu açica?
      eri, carigueya e.
      Ejori
      baenẽ baepoxi
      bora, miaratacaca
      ceboi, tamarutaca
      ſarau — Xepoeirai, xeropecij
      auye, teume xemombaca.
      [Anjo: Mba'epe ké tuî opyka? / Andyrá ruãpe é, / panama koîpó gûaîkuíka? / Ené, rõ, kururuasyka? / Erĩ, sarigûeîa é./ Eîori / mba'enem, mba'epoxy, / mborá, miaratakaka, / sebo'i, tamarutaka.
      Saraûaîa: Xe pûeraî, xe ropesyî. / Aûîé, teumẽ xe mombaka.]
      Angel: What is here, lying still? Is it a bat, a butterfly or a short-tailed opossum? Maybe a crippled toad? Ay opossum! Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, worm, mantis shrimp.
      Saraûaîa: I'm tired, I'm sleepy. Enough! Don't wake me up!

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: sariwé
  • Brazilian Portuguese: saruê, saiguê, sarigueia

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