ûaraîa

Old Tupi

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Portuguese balaio (“hamper”) +‎ -a (nominal suffix), possibly from an earlier *baraîa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waɾaja/
  • Rhymes: -aja
  • Hyphenation: ûa‧raî‧a

Noun

ûaraîa (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

  1. hamper
    Synonym: patygûá

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: waraya

References

  • Society of Jesus (20 September 1750), “Balaýo”, in “Diccionario da Lingua geral do Brazil [Dictionary of Brazil’s General Language]”, in Grãmatica da Lingua geral do Brazil [Grammar of Brazil’s General Language]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Pará, page 266: “Varaýa”
  • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Canastra”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 9, column 1, line 102; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 127: “balaia”
  • anonymous author (18th century), “Balayo”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎[2] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 68: “Varaya”
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