setú

See also: setu and setů

Kariri

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cesto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /setu/
  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

setú (5th declension, 3rd person singular susetú) (Kipeá)

  1. (hapax legomenon) basket
    Synonym: bará (Kipeá)
    Near-synonym: cramemú (Kipeá)
    • 1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri (in Portuguese), pages 23–25:
      A eſta quinta Declinaçaõ pertencem [] os nomes ſeguintes [] Setù, ceſto.
      To this fifth declension belong [] the following nouns [] Setù, basket.

References

  • Rodrigues, Arion Dall’Igna (1942), “SETÙ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português [Portuguese–Kirirí and Kirirí–Portuguese vocabularies]”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2 (overall work in Portuguese), page 209, column 1