seborá
Old Tupi
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Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cebola, from Old Galician-Portuguese cebola, from Latin cēpulla, from cēpa + -ulus. Doublet of sebora.
Compare Paraguayan Guarani sevói.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [se.voˈɾa]
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: se‧bo‧rá
Noun
seborá (?) (Língua Geral Paulista)
- (hapax legomenon) onion (Allium cepa)
- Synonyms: (Língua Geral Amazônica) sebora, (Late Tupi) 'ybaremusu
References
- anonymous author (18th century), “Cebola”, 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 273: “ſevorâ”