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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: sy‧ûa‧su
Noun
syûasu (unpossessable)
- Alternative form of sûasu
References
- André Thevet (1575) chapter XII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 936: “Soubaſſoub [Syûasu]”
- Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XIX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 347: “Se-ouaſſou [Syûasu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “syûasu”, 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 450, column 1