ybyrá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨra. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Portuguese madeiro.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní yvyra.

• IPA^(key): [ɨ.βɨˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: y‧by‧rá

ybyrá (unpossessable)

1. tree

   Synonym: 'yba

   • 1622, anonymous author, “Pe, pello grosso da aruore, masto, etc.”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 68; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Igbigraîpigpeain

     [Ybyraypype aín]

     I stood by a tree trunk.

2. wood
   • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “De algũas dições, que ſos per ſi nao ſignificão; mas juntas a outras partes da oração, lhe dão ſentido differente”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 79:

     […] Aybyrá áb […]

     [ […] Aybira'ab […] ]

     I cut wood.

3. stick
   • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[2] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 67v:

     Ainupã xerayra ybyrà pupè […]

     [Aînupã xe ra'yra ybyrá pupé […] ]

     I whipped my son with a stick.

4. fence; outer wall

   Synonym: ka'aysá

6. (Christianity, Late Tupi) cross

   Synonyms: îoasaba, kurusá, ybyraîekunasaba

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Cãtiga & el ſin Vẽtura” (chapter XXV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 26, column 1, lines 8–14; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 61:

     yãde anga rauçupape / ibira pupe omanomo / yãde repimeẽgape / anhãgape oyemoiromo / yãde rauçupa / yãde raromo / yãde anga piciromo.

     [îandé 'anga raûsupape / ybyrá pupé omanõmo; / îandé repyme'engape, / anhangape oîemoyrõmo, / îandé raûsupa, / îandé rarõmo / îandé 'anga pysyrõmo.]

     Because of his love for our soul, he dies on the cross; to give us the remission, infuriating himself because of the devil, loving us, looking after us, saving our soul.

• Nheengatu: mirá
• → Portuguese: Ibirá, Iburá

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[3] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ybyrá”, 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 520, columns 1–2