seîxu

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Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: seî‧xu

Noun

seîxu (?)

  1. (astronomy) Pleiades[1]
  2. (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

  • Nheengatu: siusí

References

  1. ^ 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]