sebo'i

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡seβoʔi (“worm”).

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní evo'i and Paraguayan Guaraní sevo’i.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɛ.β̞ɔˈʔi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: se‧bo‧'i

Noun

sebo'i (unpossessable)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 71, lines 488–491; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 133:
      Ejori / baenẽ baepoxi / bora, miaratacaca / ceboi, tamarutaca
      [Eîori / mba'enem mba'epoxy / mborá, miaratakaka / sebo'i, tamarutaka]
      Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, leech/worm, mantis shrimp
    1. leech
      Synonyms: sebo'ipeba, terepomonga, tugûypabe'yma
    2. worm
  • pysebo'i
  • sebo'inhanga
  • sebo'ipeba

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: xibuí

References

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