-sab

• -ab, -b, -á, -ndab

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ, from Proto-Tupian *-ap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaβ/
• Rhymes: -aβ
• Hyphenation: sab

-sab

2. froms nouns from verbs, indicating, generally, a means of action of that verb
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter L, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 97, column 1, lines 10–13; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 184:

     Ejori teremondo / Xeçuj teco angaipaba / co xeanga deruçaba / derupabamo toico.

     [Eîori t'eremondó / Xe suí tekoangaîpaba / kó xe 'anga nde rusaba / nde rupabamo t'oîkó.]

     Come to shoo the sin from me. Here's my soul, place of your arrival, it shall be your bed.

3. forms nouns from verbs, denoting the act of doing something; -ing

   Synonym: -a

4. (Late Tupi) forms abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives

   Synonym: -a

   ‎nhemoŷrõ (“to become angry”) + ‎-sab + ‎-a → ‎nhemoŷrõndaba (“wrath”)

• Sense 1 can be translated in various ways and its precise meaning can only be infered by context.

• Nheengatu: -sawa

• 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, pages 279–286
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (1998) chapter 20, in Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos [Modern method of Old Tupi: the language of Brazil's early centuries]‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, São Paulo: Global Editora, published 2005, →ISBN, Os nomes derivados com -(S)AB(A), pages 278–283
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “-sab(a)”, 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 435, column 1