takûare'ẽ

Old Tupi

Etymology

From takûara (“bamboo”) +‎ e'ẽ (“sweet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.kʷa.ɾɛˈʔɛ̃]
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Hyphenation: ta‧kûa‧re‧'ẽ

Noun

takûare'ẽ (?)

1. (Late Tupi) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)

   Synonyms: takûara, u'ubae'ẽ, (LGA) kana

Derived terms

• takûare'ẽeíra
• takûare'ẽndyba
• takûare'ẽypy'oka

 

References

• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XVI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 82: “Tacomaree [Takûare'ẽ]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Cana dasuquere”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 65: “Takoareẽ [Takûare'ẽ]”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cana de assucar”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 127, column 1, line 94; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI: “tacoareẽ [takûare'ẽ]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “takûare'ẽ”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 459, column 1