sukuriîu

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sukuriˈju/,
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: su‧ku‧ri‧îu

Noun

sukuriîu (unpossessable)

  1. green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
    • Joseph of Anchieta (1560) chapter VIII, in Epistola quamplurimarum rerum naturalium quae S. Vicentii (nunc S. Pauli) provinciam incolunt sistens descriptionem (overall work in Latin); republished as Diogo de Toledo Lara Ordonhez, editor, Lisboa: Typis Academiae, 1799, page 10: “Çucuryúba”
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço” (chapter XLIV), in , Niterói, page 66v; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 124:
      Xe giboya, xe coço / xe tamuyuçu Aimbire / Çucuriju, taguato / tamandoa atirabebo / xe anhanga morope.
      [Xe îyboîa, xe sokó, xe tamuîusu Aîmbiré. Sukuriîu, tagûató, tamandûá atyrabebó, xe anhanga moropé.]
      I'm a boa, a heron, I'm the great tamoio Aîmbiré. A anaconda, a goshawk, a shaggy anteater, I'm a people-burning devil.

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: sukuriyú
  • → Portuguese: sucuri

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