so'o
See also: Appendix:Variations of "soo"
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔˈʔɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɔ
- Hyphenation: so‧'o
Etymology 1
From o'o (“meat”).
Noun
so'o (unpossessable)
- game; beast of venery (wild animal hunted for food; only refers to four-legged mammals)
- venison (meat of a hunted animal)
Usage notes
Although so'o is commonly translated as animal, Old Tupi doesn't have a generic word for all vertebrates.
Derived terms
- so'oaíba
- so'ogûasurãîgûera
- so'okugûaba
- so'oma'e'ĩndaba
- so'ombiara
- so'ombo'isaba
- so'ombo'isara
- so'omimbaba
- so'oragûera
- so'orupîara
- so'oîukasara
- so'oîurupari
Descendants
- Nheengatu: suú
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Verb
so'o (first-person singular active indicative aîso'o, first-person singular negative active indicative naîso'oî, noun so'o) (transitive)
- to invite
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “so'o”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 444–445
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