so'ogûasurãîgûera

Old Tupi

Etymology

From so'o (“beast of venery”) +‎ -gûasu (“big”) +‎ rãî (“tooth”) +‎ gûer (“former”) +‎ -a, literally “big beast of venery's former tooth”.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sɔ.ʔɔ.ɡʷa.su.ɾãjˈɡʷɛ.ɾa]
Rhymes: -ɛɾa
Hyphenation: so‧'o‧gûa‧su‧rãî‧gûe‧ra

Noun

so'ogûasurãîgûera (?)

(Late Tupi, hapax legomenon) ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants)^[2]

References

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, 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 445, column 1
^ anonymous author (1622) “Marfim”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 32: “Çooguaçûrãyguera. [So'ogûasurãîgûera.]”

[1] Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, 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 445, column 1

[2] ymous author (1622) “Marfim”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 32: “Çooguaçûrãyguera. [So'ogûasurãîgûera.]”

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