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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨkuʔi. By surface analysis, yby (“earth”) + ku'i (“flour”)
Cognate with Guaraní yvyku'i.
Pronunciation
Noun
ybyku'i (unpossessable)
- sand (finely ground rock foming beaches)
1622, anonymous author, “Area preta”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 41; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:Ibîcuiuna.- [Ybyku'iúna.]
- Black sand.
- (Língua Geral Amazônica, metonymically) beach (shore of a body of water)[1]
- Synonyms: 'yembyîeîa, 'yembe'yba
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Praya”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 33, column 1, line 5; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 225: “ybycuí”