ysá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: y‧sá

Noun

ysá (unpossessable)

1. leaf-cutter ant queen (Atta sp.)

Related terms

• sebitu (male ant)
• ysaeté (worker ant)
• ysaubẽ (anthill)
• ysaúba (worker ant)

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: isá
• → Brazilian Portuguese: içá

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ysá”, 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 533, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 295