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 (?)

  1. (hapax, Late Tupi) ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants)
    • 1622, “Marfim”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 32; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
      Çooguaçûrãyguera.
      [So'ogûasurãîgûera.]

References
  1. Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'ogûasurãîgûera”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 445, column 1
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