reîa
Old Tupi
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Borrowed from Portuguese rei (“king”).
Pronunciation
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editreîa (possessable)(Late Tupi)
- monarch (ruler of an absolute monarchy; king or queen)
- Synonyms: ubixaba, morubixaba
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 124, lines 1476–1480; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
- Orirẏ nde iucare / tupã çumarã reya / eiori ore requÿa / toroico nde ipipenhe / ore çumarã mõdia
- [Oryry, nde îuká ré, / Tupã sumarã reîa. / Eîori oré rekyîa, / t'oroîkó nde ypype nhẽ, / oré sumarã mondyîa.]
- They tremble after killing you, the kings enemy to God. Come to rapture us, so we can be at your side, and frighten our enemies.
- royalty (rank, status, power or authority of a monarch)
References
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “reîa”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 428, column 1