sagûi
Old Tupi
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sagûi (unpossessable)
- (North Tupi) common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)[1]
- (South Tupi) golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)[2]
- Synonym: sagûiîuba
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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 252v: “Sagouy [Sagûi]”
- ^ Duarte Fernandes (1511) Llyuro da náoo bertoa […] [1] (in Old Tupi); Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Diario da navegação de Pedro Lopes de Souza pela costa do Brazil até o Rio Uruguay (de 1530 a 1532), 4th edition, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de D. L. dos Santos, 1867, page 108: “çagoym [sagûĩ]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sagûi”, 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 436, 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 254