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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ut͡ʃa (“crab”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈsa/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: u‧sá
Noun
usá (unpossessable, female equivalent kunduru)
- fiddler crab (Uca sp.)
- swamp ghost crab (Ucides cordatus)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “usá”, 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 503, column 2
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 291
- ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 203, line 3
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
usá m (plural usás)
- Alternative form of uçá
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈsa/
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: u‧sá
Verb
usá
- second-person singular voseo imperative of usar