ybyku'i

Old Tupi

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Tupian *ɨpʷɨ
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨ
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuʔi
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨkuʔi
    Old Tupi ybyku'i

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨkuʔi. By surface analysis, yby (“earth”) +‎ ku'i (“flour”)

    Cognate with Guaraní yvyku'i.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɨβɨkuˈʔi/
    • Rhymes: -i
    • Hyphenation: y‧by‧ku‧'i
    • Homophone: Ybyku'i

    Noun

    ybyku'i (unpossessable)

    1. sand (finely ground rock foming beaches)
      • 1622, anonymous author, “Area preta”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 41; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
        Ibîcuiuna.
        [Ybyku'iúna.]
        Black sand.
    2. (Língua Geral Amazônica, metonymic) beach (shore of a body of water)[1]
      Synonyms: 'yembyîeîa, 'yembe'yba

    Derived terms

    • Ybyku'i

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: iwikuí, iuikuí
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: Ibicuí

    References

    1. ^ Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Praya”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 33, column 1, line 5; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 225: “ybycuí”
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