sûasuapara
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Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sûasu (“deer”) + apar (“bent”) + -a.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sûasuapara (unpossessable)
- a species of South American deer with big antlers. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: suasú-apara
- → Brazilian Portuguese: suaçuapara
References
[edit]- 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: “Cuacupara [Sûasuapara]”
- 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: “suaçupára [sûasuapara]”
- 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 Apar [Sûasuapar[a]]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sûasuapara”, 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, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 248