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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡seβoʔi (“worm”).
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní evo'i and Paraguayan Guaraní sevo’i.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: se‧bo‧'i
Noun
sebo'i (unpossessable)
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 44; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:(please add the primary text of this quotation)- [Eîori, mba'enem, mba'epoxy, mborá, miaratakaka, sebo'i, tamarutaka!]
- Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, leech/worm, mantis shrimp!
- leech
- Synonyms: terepomonga, tugûypabe'yma
- worm
Descendants
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sebo'i”, 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 440, 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, pages 298–299