kesaba
Old Tupi
Etymology
From ker (“to sleep”) + -sab (instrumentalizer suffix) + -a, literally “sleeping place”.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛˈsa.β̞a/
- Rhymes: -aβa
- Hyphenation: ke‧sa‧ba
Noun
kesaba (possessable)
- hammock
- 1595 [1555], Joseph of Anchieta, chapter X, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, page 44:
- Eyotĩ de queçába, xeporupî.
- [Eîotĩ nde kesaba xe porupi]
- Tie your hammock next to me.
- perch (rod used used as a roost by birds)
- Synonym: endaba
- (Late Tupi) bed (piece of furniture to rest or sleep)
- Synonyms: inimbeba, kesapeba, upaba
Derived terms
- kesapeba
- nhandu'ikesaba
Descendants
- Nheengatu: kisawa
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kesaba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 227, column 1
- “Poleiro”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (in Portuguese), Piratininga, 1622; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 80
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