Tupã Ta'yra

Old Tupi

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese Deus Filho.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tũˈpã taˈʔɨ.ɾa]

Proper noun

Tupã Ta'yra

  1. (Christianity, Late Tupi) God the Son
    Synonyms: Îandé Îara, Îesu
    • 1687, João Filipe Bettendorff, Compendio da Doutrina Christãa Na lingua Portugueza, e Brasilica [Compendium of the Christian Doctrine in the Portuguese and Brasílica Language] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 43, column 2; republished as José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo, editor, Lisbon: Offic. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1800:
      M. Cetépe Tupã Tûba, Tupã Täŷra, Tupã Espirito Santo? acẽ iabé?
      D. Natecëí: Tupã Täŷra äé, iande iabé, apyâbamo onhemonhanghiré é, cetéramo cöyté, acẽ iabẽ.
      [M. Setépe Tupã Tuba, Tupã Ta'yra, Tupã Espírito Santo? Asé îabé?
      D. Na setéî: Tupã Ta'yra a'e, îandé îabé apŷabamo o nhemonhang'iré é, setéramo ko'yté, asé îabé.]
      Does God the Son, God the Father, God the Holy Ghost have a body like us? / He has no body: God the Son, however, after making Himself man like us, had, in the end, a body like us.

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