kûarasy
See also: kuarasy
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kʷarat͡sɨ, from Proto-Tupian *ŋgəat. Doublet of kûara.[1] By surface analysis, kó (“this”) + 'ara (“day”) + sy (“origin”), literally “"the origin of this day"”.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní kuarahy.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkûarasy (unpossessable)
- the Sun
- Synonym: kûara
- Guaraci, the Sun personified
- summer
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Nheengatu: kuarasi, kwarasi
- → Portuguese: Guaraci
References
editFurther reading
edit- Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts][1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kûarasy”, 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, pages 236–237
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- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupian
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupian
- Old Tupi doublets
- Old Tupi compound terms
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɨ
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɨ/3 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi unpossessable nouns
- tpw:Sun
- tpw:Light sources
- tpw:Seasons