tasyba

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
d'Abbeville (1614) tasuue
  • itasyba
Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) jtacîba

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tat͡sɨβ.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /taˈsɨβa/
    • Rhymes: -ɨβa
    • Hyphenation: ta‧sy‧ba

    Noun

    tasyba (?)

    1. fire ant (Solenopsis saevissima)[1][2]
      Synonym: tasyaí
      • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XLII, 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] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 256:
        Taſuue ce ſont d'autres fourmis fort petits & de couleur rougeaſtre qui mordent auſſi bien fort, leur piqueure vous demange en telle ſorte qu'on eſt contrainct de ſe gratter.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
      • a. 1756, Anton Meisterburg, “Formigueiro [Anthill]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 21r, column 2, line 52; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 175:
        […] tacýba retáma.
        [ […] tasyba retama.]
        Fire ant hill.
    2. (Língua Geral Amazônica, Língua Geral Paulista, loosely) any ant[3][4][5]

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: tasiwa
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: taciba

    References

    1. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Formiga não tem genero […] outras piqueninas [Ant, there's no generic [name] […] some smaller ones]”, 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 142: “Jtacîba [Itasyba]”
    2. ^ Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 296, line 426
    3. ^ Arronches, João de (1739), “FORMIGA [Ant]”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 187: “taciba”
    4. ^ Frei Onofre (1751), “Formiga [Ant]”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 41, column 2: “Taçýba”
    5. ^ anonymous author (18th century), “Formiga [Ant]”, in Língua geral dos índios das Américas [General language of the Indians of the Americas]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Paulista), page 5r, line 297: “tasuva”

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