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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: seî‧xu
Noun
seîxu (?)
- (astronomy) Pleiades[1]
- (Late Tupi, chiefly North Tupi) year
- Synonyms: seîxutatá, akaîu'aîuba, ro'y
1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter I, 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 17:Cei xû yabiõ nhemombeû- [Seîxu îabi'õ nhemombe'u]
- To confess each year
Descendants
References
- ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter LI, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 316v: “Seychou [Seîxu]”