kygûaba
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
- kyûaba
| Historical spellings | |
|---|---|
| Léry (1578) | kuap |
| d'Abbeville (1614) | keuäр |
| VLB (1622) | quiggoaba |
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kɨwaβ. According to Navarro, from kyba (“louse”) + 'u (“to eat”) + -ab (instrumentalizer) + -a (nominalizer), literally “louse-eating tool”.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kɨˈwa.βa]
- Rhymes: -aβa
- Hyphenation: ky‧gûa‧ba
Noun
kygûaba (possessable)
- comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)
- [1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 346:
- […] Kuap des peignes […]
- […] “Kyûab[a]” — some combs […] ]
- [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XLVII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 283v:
- […] leurs peignes qu'ils appellent Keuäр […]
- […] their combs that they call “kyûab[a]” […] ]
Descendants
- Nheengatu: kiwawa
References
- anonymous author (1622), “Pente, ou pentẽ [Comb]”, 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 72: “Quiggoaba [Kygûaba]”
- ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “kygûaba”, 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 249, column 2