Old Tupi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Portuguese sábado.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [sa.β̞aˈɾu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ba‧ru

Noun

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sabaru (possessable)

  1. (LGA) Saturday

Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: saurú

See also

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References

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  • Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Dia de Domingo”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica (in Portuguese), Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 151, column 1, line 8:sabarù [sabaru]