gûyraîuba

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡwɨɾaˈjuβa/
  • Rhymes: -uβa
  • Hyphenation: gûy‧ra‧îu‧ba

Etymology 1

  • Etymology tree
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨra
    Old Tupi gûyrá
    Proto-Tupian *wub
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *juβ
    Old Tupi îub
    Proto-Tupian *-ap
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
    Old Tupi -a
    Old Tupi gûyraîuba

    From gûyrá (“bird”) + îub (“yellow”) + -a.[1]

    Noun

    gûyraîuba (unpossessable)

    1. (hapax legomenon) golden parakeet (Guaruba guarouba)[2]
      Synonym: aîuruîuba
      • [p. 1583, Fernão Cardim, chapter IV, in Do clima e terra do Brasil (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 51:
        Chama-se este passaro Guigrajúba, sc., passaro amarello […]
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
    Descendants
    • Nheengatu: wirayú
    • → Portuguese: guirajuba, guarajuba, guarujuba, guaruba

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    gûyraîuba (unpossessable)

    1. alternative form of gûaraîuba (“blue runner”)

    References

    1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “gûyraîuba”, 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 139, column 2
    2. ^ Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 267, line 167
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