sûasu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• syûasu, sygûasu, sugûasu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃɨ-wat͡ʃu, from Proto-Tupian *ɨt͡ʃɨ.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní guaxu and Guaraní guasu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʷaˈsu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: sûa‧su

Noun

sûasu (unpossessable)

1. deer (any animal of the Cervidae family)

Related terms

• sygûasumẽ
• Sûasuakanga
• sûasuapara
• sûasuarana
• sûasueté
• Sûasuka'ẽ
• sûasukanga
• sûasumandi'yba
• sûasupytanga
• sûasutinga

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: suasú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: suaçu

References

• Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § III (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1301: “Cuacu [Sûasu]”
• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XCVII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 246: “suaçú [sûasu]”
• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 249: “Souaſſou [Sûasu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sûasu”, 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 446, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 248