kuîa

Old Tupi

kuîa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ja/
• Rhymes: -uja
• Hyphenation: ku‧îa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuja (“calabash”).

Cognate with Tocantins Asurini kosa, Cocama kuja, Aurá kwi and Tembé kuj.

Noun

kuîa (IId class pluriform, absolute kuîa, R1 rekuîa, R2 sekuîa, R3 o ekuîa) (possessable)

1. calabash (fruit of the calabash tree Crescentia cujete)
2. calabash (container made of this fruit)

Derived terms

• kuîaba
• kuîe'yba
• kuîeté
• kuîmbuka
• kuîpeba

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: kuya
• → Portuguese: cuia, cuya
  • → Hunsrik: Kui

Etymology 2

From kuî (“to fall”) +‎ -a.

Noun

kuîa (possessable)

1. fall, in the sense of detaching from something

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(e)kuîa”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 97, column 1