seîxuîurá

Old Tupi

Etymology

From seîxu (“Pleiades”) +‎ îurá (“grill”), literally “grill of the Pleiades”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɛj.ʃu.juˈɾa], [sɛj.ʃu.ʒuˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: seî‧xu‧îu‧rá

Noun

seîxuîurá (?)

1. (astronomy) Name of a constellation with nine stars arranged like a grill, which, according to the indigenous people, announced the rain. Further details are uncertain.

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “seîxuîurá”, 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