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Old Tupi
Etymology
From takûara (“bamboo”) + e'ẽ (“sweet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -ɛ̃
- Hyphenation: ta‧kûa‧re‧'ẽ
Noun
takûare'ẽ (?)
- (Late Tupi) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)
- Synonyms: takûara, u'ubae'ẽ, (LGA) kana
Derived terms
References
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XVI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 82: “Tacomaree [Takûare'ẽ]”
- anonymous author (1622) “Cana dasuquere”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 65: “Takoareẽ [Takûare'ẽ]”
- Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cana de assucar”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 127, column 1, line 94; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI: “tacoareẽ [takûare'ẽ]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “takûare'ẽ”, 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 459, column 1