asukiri
Old Tupi
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Portuguese açúcar.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editasukiri (?)
- (LGA) sugar
- Synonyms: takûare'ẽypy'oka, u'ubae'ẽypy'oka
Descendants
edit- Nheengatu: asukirí
References
edit- João de Arronches (1739) “ASUCAR”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 116: “açukiri [asukiri]”
- annonymous (c. 1757) “Assucar”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica (in Portuguese), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 20: “açukirî [asukiri]”