kysé

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kɨt͡ʃe (“knife”), from Proto-Tupian *kɨt͡ʃe (“bamboo”).

Cognate with Guaraní kyse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɨˈsɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ky‧sé

Noun

kysé (possessable)

1. knife
   • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 346:

     Ereroupè itaxé amo […] ?

     [Ererupe itakysé amõ […] ?]

     Have you brought some iron knives?

Derived terms

• kyseapara
• kysegûasu
• takûakysé

Descendants

• Nheengatu: kisé
• → Portuguese: quicé

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Faca”, 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 133: “Quigcê [Kysé]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 271: “Itaquice […] Taquoaquice [Itakysé […] Takûakysé]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kysé”, 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 248, column 2