Old Tupi

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Etymology

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From so'o (beast of venery) +‎ -gûasu (big) +‎ rãî (tooth) +‎ gûer (former) +‎ -a, literally big beast of venery's former tooth.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [sɔ.ʔɔ.ɡʷa.su.ɾãjˈɡʷɛ.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -ɛɾa
  • Hyphenation: so‧'o‧gûa‧su‧rãî‧gûe‧ra

Noun

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so'ogûasurãîgûera (?)

  1. (Late Tupi, hapax) ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants)[2]

References

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  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, 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 445, column 1
  2. ^ anonymous author (1622) “Marfim”, 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 32:Çooguaçûrãyguera. [So'ogûasurãîgûera.]
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