kabaru

Old Tupi

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cavalo, from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Latin caballus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kaballos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka.β̞aˈɾu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ka‧ba‧ru

Noun

kabaru (unpossessable)

1. horse (Equus ferus caballus)
   • 1622, anonymous author, “Sella do caualo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume II (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 115; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Cabarû repanacû.

     [Kabaru repanaku.]

     Horse saddle.

   • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 66:

     Cabarú çoce.

     [Kabaru sosé.]

     On the horse.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: kawarú

References

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cavallo”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 9v, column 1, line 178; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 129: “cabarú [kabaru]”
• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 385
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kabaru”, 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 210, column 2