sagrapyra

Partial calque of Portuguese sagrado (“sacred”), from Portuguese sagrar / sagrado (“to consecrate, sacred”) +‎ -pyr (passive nominalizer suffix) +‎ -a (nominal suffix).

The suffix -pyr typically requires the prefix s- to precede it in the case of pluriform verbs, as in saûsubypyra (“that which is loved”) or the pronoun i, as in i îukapyra (“that which is killed”). This does not occur in the present case, which may be explained either by a reanalysis of sagrapyra as already containing the prefix s- or by the fact that, if the pronoun i were to be added, the resulting form *i xagrapyra might have been difficult for the native people being catechized to recognize and understand. See also missa-pytuna § Etymology.

• IPA^(key): [sa.ɡɾaˈpɨ.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ɨɾa
• Hyphenation: sa‧gra‧py‧ra

sagrapyra (unpossessable)

1. (hapax legomenon) that which is sacred
   • 1687, João Filipe Bettendorff, “Acto de Contrição”, in 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 29, column 2; republished as José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo, editor, Lisbon: Offic. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1800:

     […] ndë rëõagoéra, nde poraraçagoéra sagrapŷreté […]

     [ […] nde re'õagûera nde [i] porarasagûera sagrapyreté […] ]

     […] your very sacred Passion […]

     (literally, “ […] your very sacred suffering of your [own] death […] ”)

• Despite José de Anchieta's categorical claim that there is no "muta com liquida" in Old Tupi, this word is attested only as sagrapyra. See also krusá § Usage notes.