seîxuîurá
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editFrom seîxu (“Pleiades”) + îurá (“grill”), literally “grill of the Pleiades”.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editseîxuîurá (?)
- (astronomy) Name of a constellation with nine stars arranged like a grill, which, according to the indigenous people, announced the rain. Further details are uncertain.
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “seîxuîurá”, 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, page 440, column 2