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Old Tupi
Etymology
From ugûy (“blood”) + ká (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: u‧gûy‧ká
Verb
ugûyká (first-person singular active indicative asugûyká, first-person singular negative active indicative n'asugûykáî, noun ugûyká) (transitive)
- to deflower (to take away the sexual virginity of someone, especially a woman or girl)
- Synonym: mombuk
1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter 7, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], 1 edition, Livro Sexto do Confessionário (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 103v:Ereçuguîcape cunhã taim amô? cemimotára rupipe, coipô y popî atãbápe?- [Eresugûykápe kunhataĩ amõ? Semimotara rupipe koîpó i popyatãmbápe?]
- Did you deflower any girl? According to her will or did she resist completely?
1686 [1618], Antônio de Araújo, chapter 6, in Bartolomeu de Leão, editor, Cateciſmo Braſilico da Doutrina Chriſtãa [Brazilian Catechism of the Christian Doctrine], 2 edition, Cateciſmo (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, page 106:Oiaby etépe aipóbäé cunhãtäĩ ruguycaçâra?- [Oîabyetépe aîpoba'e kunhataĩ rugûykasara?]
- Do those who deflower girls transgress this a lot?
Conjugation
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
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