îybá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jɨβa. Cognate with Guaraní jyva.

• IPA^(key): /jɨˈβa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: îy‧bá

îybá (possessable)

1. arm (upper appendage from shoulder to wrist)
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 77, line 751; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 145:

     […] tau cori ygibapuera.

     [ […] t'a'u kori i îybapûera.]

     I shall eat your severed arms today.

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter LXXVII, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], pages 174–174v, column 1, lines 21–28; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 326:

     Nitibi tugui / demẽbiraçape / Ende degibape / Jeſu ereçupi / ipoya miri / nde cama pupe

     [N'i tybi tugûy / nde membyrasápe / Endé, nde îybápe / Jesus eresupi / i poîamirĩ / nde kama pupé]

     There was no blood in your childbirth. You, on your arms, raised Jesus, nursing him little by little on your breast.

• Nheengatu: yuwá

• Pero de Castilho (1613) “braço [arm]”, in Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 32, line 85: “Iịbâ”
• anonymous author (1622) “Braço [arm]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 58: “Gibâ”

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îybá”, 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, pages 203–204, column 1