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Old Tupi
Etymology
From so'o (“beast of venery”) + -gûasu (“big”) + rãî (“tooth”) + gûer (“former”) + -a, literally “big beast of venery's former tooth”.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -ɛɾa
- Hyphenation: so‧'o‧gûa‧su‧rãî‧gûe‧ra
Noun
so'ogûasurãîgûera (?)
- (Late Tupi, hapax) ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants)[2]
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, 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 445, column 1
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Marfim”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 32: “Çooguaçûrãyguera. [So'ogûasurãîgûera.]”