kuîa

See also: kuia

Old Tupi

kuîa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuja/
• Rhymes: -uja
• Hyphenation: ku‧îa

Etymology 1

Derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuj.

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

Noun

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

1. calabash (fruit of the calabash tree Crescentia cujete)
2. calabash (container made of this fruit)

Derived terms

• kuîaba
• kuîe'yba
• kuîeté
• kuîmbuka
• kuîpeba

Descendants

• Nheengatu: kuya
• → Portuguese: cuia, cuya (obsolete)
  • → Hunsrik: Kui

Etymology 2

From kuî (“to fall”) +‎ -a.

Noun

kuîa (possessable)

1. fall, in the sense of detaching from something

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(e)kuîa”, 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 97, column 1