kûá

Old Tupi

Etymology 1

Noun

kûá (unpossessable)

bay; cove^[1]

Derived terms

paranãngûá

Etymology 2

Interjection

kûá

poor thing!^[2]

Etymology 3

Apocopic form of kûab.

Verb

kûá (first-person singular active indicative akûá, first-person singular negative active indicative n'akûáî, noun kûaba) (intransitive)

(São Vicente) Alternative form of kûab
- 1622, anonymous author, “Passar à uista, ou por a par de algiia cousa”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 67; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
  Nhoecẽbê robabo ycoay.
  [Nhoesembé robábo i kûáî.]
  In front of Nhoesembé he passed.

References

^ anonymous author (1622) “Bahia, ou enseada qualquer do mar”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 50: “Coa [Kûá]”
^ Luís Figueira (c. 1628) “DA INTERIEIÇAM, ſetima parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brazilian language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manoel da Silva, page 80v: “Coà [Kûá]”

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kûá”, 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 233, column 2

[1] ymous author (1622) “Bahia, ou enseada qualquer do mar”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 50: “Coa [Kûá]”

[2] Luís Figueira (c. 1628) “DA INTERIEIÇAM, ſetima parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brazilian language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manoel da Silva, page 80v: “Coà [Kûá]”

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