so'ogûasurãîgûera

Old Tupi edit

Etymology edit

From so'o (“beast of venery”) +‎ -gûasu (“big”) +‎ rãî (“tooth”) +‎ gûer (“former”) +‎ -a, literally “big beast of venery's former tooth”.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [sɔ.ʔɔ.ɡʷa.su.ɾãjˈɡʷɛ.ɾa]
Rhymes: -ɛɾa
Hyphenation: so‧'o‧gûa‧su‧rãî‧gûe‧ra

Noun edit

so'ogûasurãîgûera (?)

(hapax, Late Tupi) ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants)
- 1622, “Marfim”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 32; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
  Çooguaçûrãyguera.
  [So'ogûasurãîgûera.]

References edit

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 445, column 1

[1] Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 445, column 1

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