îu'i

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) iuî

Etymology

  • Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *juʔi.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /juˈʔi/
    • Rhymes: -i
    • Hyphenation: îu‧'i

    Noun

    îu'i (unpossessable)

    1. frog
    • îu'igûara'igûara'i
    • îu'iperereka
    • îu'iponga
    • îu'ií
    • îu'iîia
    • îu'ĩ

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: yuí
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: juí

    References

    • anonymous author (1622), “Rã dagoa [Water frog]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 96: “Iuî”
    • Arronches, João de (1739), “RAM [Frog]”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 267
    • Frei Onofre (1751), “RAM (animal) [Frog (animal)]”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 66, column 1: “Yuî”
    • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Raã [Frog]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 35r, column 2, line 1; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 231: “juí”
    • anonymous author (18th century), “Rã [Frog]”, in Língua geral dos índios das Américas [General language of the Indians of the Americas]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), page 5r, line 293: “Iuî”

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