esagûyrumbyk
Appearance
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From esá (“eye”) + gûyra (“bottom, lower part, bottom part”) + *umbyk (“purple, dark”), literally “purple lower parts of eyes”.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]esagûyrumbyk (IIa class pluriform, R1 resagûyrumbyk, R2 sesagûyrumbyk, noun form esagûyrumbyka)
- to have periorbital dark circles
- Mba'e resépe nde resagûyrumbyk?
- Why do you have dark circles?
- Kûesekûesé bé gûikere'yma, ko'yr xe resagûyrumbyketeetéramo nhẽ.
- Having not slept since the day before yesterday, now I have dark circles too much, indeed.
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[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “esagûyrumbyka”, 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 118, column 1