kabaru

Old Tupi

Etymology

  • Borrowed from Portuguese cavalo, from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Latin caballus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kaballos.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ka.β̞aˈɾu]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: ka‧ba‧ru

    Noun

    kabaru (unpossessable)

    1. horse (Equus ferus caballus)
      • 1622, anonymous author, “Sella do caualo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume II (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 115; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
        Cabarû repanacû.
        [Kabaru repanaku.]
        Horse saddle.
      • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 66:
        Cabarú çoce.
        [Kabaru sosé.]
        On the horse.

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: kawarú

    References

    • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Cavallo”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 9v, column 1, line 178; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 129: “cabarú [kabaru]”
    • Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956), Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 385
    • Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “kabaru”, 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 210, column 2
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