ybyku'i

Old Tupi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨ

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuʔi

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨkuʔi

Old Tupi ybyku'i

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨβɨkuʔi. By surface analysis, yby (“earth”) +‎ ku'i (“flour”)

Cognate with Guaraní yvyku'i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨβɨkuˈʔi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: y‧by‧ku‧'i
• Homophone: Ybyku'i

Noun

ybyku'i (unpossessable)

1. sand (finely ground rock foming beaches)
   • 1622, anonymous author, “Area preta”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 41; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Ibîcuiuna.

     [Ybyku'iúna.]

     Black sand.

2. (Língua Geral Amazônica, metonymically) beach (shore of a body of water)

   Synonyms: 'yembyîeîa, 'yembe'yba

Derived terms

• Ybyku'i

Descendants

• Nheengatu: iwikuí, iuikuí
• → Brazilian Portuguese: Ibicuí

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ybyku'i”, 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 519, column 2