so'o

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soo"

Guaraní

Noun

so'o

1. meat

Derived terms

• so'o apu'a (“meatball”)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈʔɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: so‧'o

Etymology 1

From o'o (“meat”).

Noun

so'o (unpossessable)

1. game; beast of venery (wild animal hunted for food)
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter 4, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Oitavo dos quatro novissimos do homen [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 166v:

     […] çoô, pirà, guîrà retãmeengàba ê ycô ára […]

     [ […] so'o, pirá, gûyrá retãme'engaba é ikó 'ara […] ]

     This world is the true promised land of the beasts of venery, fishes and birds.

2. venison (meat of a hunted animal)
   • 1613–1614, Yves d'Évreux, chapter XXIII, in Suitte de l'histoire des choses plus memorables advenues en Maragnan es années 1613 et 1614 (overall work in French), Paris: François Huby, published 1615, page 97:

     Ageroure soo ressé.

     [Aîeruré so'o resé.]

     I ask for venison.

Usage notes

• Although translated broadly as animal, so'o refered to four-legged mammals only. Old Tupi as a whole lacked a generic word for all members of Animalia.

Derived terms

• so'oaíba
• so'ogûasurãîgûera
• so'okugûaba
• so'oma'e'ĩndaba
• so'ombiara
• so'ombo'isaba
• so'ombo'isara
• so'omimbaba
• so'oragûera
• so'orupîara
• so'oîukasara
• so'oîurupari

Descendants

• Nheengatu: suú

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

so'o (first-person singular active indicative aîxo'o, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîxo'oî, noun so'o) (transitive)

1. to invite
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, page 68v, lines 385–389; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 128:

     Oporacacab aba.
     aete caõu poaitara
     apiaba çoguabopa.
     Morubixa, moçacara
     tei yxebo, oyabanga.

     [Oporakakab abá[?] / A'ete kaûĩ pûaîtara / apŷaba sogûabo pá. / Morubixá, mosakara / t'e'i ixébo o'îabangá.]

     They censor someone? But they are the ones who order cauim, inviting all the men and definitely saying: “May the chieftains and noble men be with me!”

Conjugation

    Conjugation of so'o (transitive, S-starting, 'O-ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)

Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.

Causative	so'oukar
Causative-comitative	eroso'o
Reflexive	îeso'o
Deverbals
-ba'e	oîxo'oba'e
emi-	emindo'o / mindo'o
-pyr(a)	i xo'opyra
-sab(a)	so'ûaba / so'osaba
-sar(a)	so'ûara / so'osara
	Singular		Singular & Plural	Plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person exclusive	1st person inclusive	2nd person
Verbal forms
Active
Indicative	aîxo'o	ereîxo'o	oîxo'o	oroîxo'o	îaîxo'o	peîxo'o
Permissive	t'aîxo'o	t'ereîxo'o	t'oîxo'o	t'oroîxo'o	t'îaîxo'o	ta peîxo'o
Imperative		eîxo'o				peîxo'o
Negative indicative	n'aîxo'oî	n'ereîxo'oî	n'oîxo'oî	n'oroîxo'oî	n'îaîxo'oî	na peîxo'oî
Negative permissive	t'aîxo'o umẽ	t'ereîxo'o umẽ	t'oîxo'o umẽ	t'oroîxo'o umẽ	t'îaîxo'o umẽ	ta peîxo'o umẽ
Negative imperative		eîxo'o umẽ				peîxo'o umẽ
Nominal forms
Infinitive
Affirmative	so'o
Negative	so'oe'yma
Gerund
Affirmative	xe so'ûabo	nde so'ûabo	i xo'ûabo	oré so'ûabo	îandé so'ûabo	pe so'ûabo
Negative	xe so'oe'yma	nde so'oe'yma	i xo'oe'yma	oré so'oe'yma	îandé so'oe'yma	pe so'oe'yma
Circumstantial
Affirmative	xe so'oû		i xo'oû	oré so'oû	îandé so'oû
Negative	xe so'oe'ymi		i xo'oe'ymi	oré so'oe'ymi	îandé so'oe'ymi

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

so'o

1. R2 form of o'o

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'o”, 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, pages 444–445