saraûaîa

Old Tupi

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese salvage (“savage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa.ɾaˈwaj.a]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: sa‧ra‧ûaî‧a
• Homophone: Saraûaîa

Noun

saraûaîa (?)

1. (Late Tupi) savage
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter 27, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 27v, lines 37–40; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 569:

     ſarauayamo oroico
     caape oroyemonhãga
     oroju nde momorãga
     ore aiba reropo.

     [Saraûaîamo oroîkó,
     ka'ape oroîemonhanga.
     Oroîu nde momoranga,
     oré aíba reropó.]

     Savages we are,
     for being born in the woods.
     We came to celebrate you,
     casting away our wickedness.

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “saraûaîa”, 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 439, column 1