sûasueté

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sûasu (“deer”) +‎ eté (“true”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʷaˌsu.ɛˈtɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: sûa‧su‧e‧té

Noun

sûasueté (unpossessable)

  1. synonym of sûasupytanga (“red brocket”)

References

  • Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Corços”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 37; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: INL, 1966, page 103, line 946: “çuaçuete [sûasueté]”
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sûasueté”, 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 446, column 1
  • Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 248
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