apykaba

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *apɨka. By surface analysis, gûapyk (“to sit”) +‎ -ab (circumstantial suffix) +‎ -a (nominal suffix), literally “place to sit”.

• IPA^(key): /apɨkaβa/, [aˌpɨˈkaβə]
• Rhymes: -aβa
• Hyphenation: a‧py‧ka‧ba

apykaba (possessable)

1. seat; chair
   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Na Aldeia de Guaraparim] [In the Village of Guaraparim]” (chapter LXIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, page 150v, lines 253–255; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 285:

     peru apicaba amo / begue yayomõgueta, / tonhãdu ume aba

     [Peru apykaba amõ. Mbegûé îaîomongetá t'onhandu umẽ abá.]

     Bring some seats. Let's speak quietly so the Indians don't notice it.

• apykapuku

• Nheengatu: wapikawa
• → Kariri: pŷcá (Kipeá), pycá (Pedra Branca)

• Claude d'Abbeville (1614), chapter 50, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 308v: “Apouycaue”
• anonymous author (1622), “Assento pello banco, cadeira, etc.”, 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 45: “Apîcaba”
• anonymous author (1622), “Cadeira, E qualquer assento”, 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 62: “Apigcaba”

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “apykaba”, 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 51, column 1