sygûasumẽ

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• syûasumẽ

Etymology

Coined by Spanish Jesuit missionary Joseph of Anchieta, from sygûasu (“deer”) +‎ mẽ (“baa, cry of a goat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɨ.ɡwa.suˈmɛ̃/, [sɨ.ɡʷa.suˈmɛ̃]
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Hyphenation: sy‧gûa‧su‧mẽ

Noun

sygûasumẽ (unpossessable)

1. goat (Capra aegagrus hircus)

   Synonyms: syûasumibaba, kabará

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “polo Moleiro” (chapter LXIX), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 170, lines 53–54; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 318:

     cigoaçume rerecoara / oyoçu pota oiara

     [sygûasumé rerekoara / oîosupotá o îara]

     The goatherds want to visit their Lord.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: suasumé

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sygûasumẽ”, 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 450, columns 1–2