kuîa

See also: kuia

Old Tupi
kuîa

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ja/
  • Rhymes: -uja
  • Hyphenation: ku‧îa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuja (“calabash”).[1]

Cognate with Tocantins Asurini kosa, Cocama kuja, Aurá kwi and Tembé kuj.

Noun

kuîa (IId class pluriform, absolute kuîa, R1 rekuîa, R2 sekuîa, R3 o ekuîa) (possessable)

  1. calabash (fruit of the calabash tree Crescentia cujete)
  2. calabash (container made of this fruit)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: kuya
  • → Portuguese: cuia, cuya
    • → Hunsrik: Kui

Etymology 2

From kuî (“to fall”) +‎ -a.

Noun

kuîa (possessable)

  1. fall, in the sense of detaching from something

References
  1. Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Capítulo III - Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos”, in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 173

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