seîxu
Old Tupi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]seîxu (?)
- (astronomy) Pleiades[1]
- (Late Tupi, chiefly North Tupi) year
- Synonyms: seîxutatá, akaîu'aîuba, ro'y
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter I, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 17:
- Cei xû yabiõ nhemombeû
- [Seîxu îabi'õ nhemombe'u]
- To confess each year
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: siusí
References
[edit]- ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter LI, 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 316v: “Seychou [Seîxu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “seîxu”, 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 440, column 2