sagûi

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • sagûĩ

Etymology

First attested in 1511.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [saˈɡʷi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: sa‧gûi

Noun

sagûi (unpossessable)

  1. (North Tupi) common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)[2]
  2. (South Tupi) golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)[3]
    Synonym: sagûiîuba
  • sagûasu
  • sagûiîuba

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: sawĩ
  • → Portuguese: sagui

References

  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 17
  2. ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 252v: “Sagouy [Sagûi]”
  3. ^ Duarte Fernandes (1511) Llyuro da náoo bertoa […] ‎[1] (in Old Tupi); Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Diario da navegação de Pedro Lopes de Souza pela costa do Brazil até o Rio Uruguay (de 1530 a 1532), 4th edition, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de D. L. dos Santos, 1867, page 108: “çagoym [sagûĩ]”
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