ebira
Old Tupi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ebira (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tebira, R1 rebira, R2 sebira)
- buttocks[1]
- Synonym: eîkûara
- hindquarters (the rear half of a quadruped)[2]
- vagina; vulva[1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kûara
- bottom (lowest part of an object)[3]
- (nautical) stern (rear part of a ship)[4]
- Synonym: opytá
Usage notes
[edit]- Sense 4 refered to the lowest part on the outside; when talking about the inside of said object, gûyra was used instead.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pero de Castilho (1613) Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 38, lines 211–212: “Tebîra [Tebira]”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Trazeira, ou anca de qualquer animal”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 135: “Cebira [Sebira]”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Fundo assi de fora”, 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 145: “Cebira [Sebira]”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Popa de qualquer embarcação”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 81: “Cebira [Sebira]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ebira”, 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 88, column 2