sand beach 3 realizations GROUP: Tupí–Guarani
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Nheengatu
lexeme iwikuí
meaning 1 (dated) sand
direction
meaning 2 (dated) beach
reference Avila 2021: 351
comment
NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Nheengatu
lexeme praya
meaning 1 sand

AIKUÉ SIYA NÃNÃ NŨGARAITA. PURÃGA USEMU MAMÉ IWÍ YUMUNANIWA PRAYA IRŨMU

2014, “NÃNÔ, in Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins, editor, Leetra Indígena‎, volume 3, number 3, São Carlos: UFSCar, page 29; text written in São Gabriel da Cachoeira https://issuu.com/grupo.leetra/docs/yeegatu__2014 

archived from the original on 22 June 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240622011307/https://issuu.com/grupo.leetra/docs/yeegatu__2014 


There are many kinds of pineapple. They grow well where soil is mixed with sand.

direction
meaning 2 beach

Asui aintaumuyari aintaigara praya rese, aintauxari panye maa asui aintausu sakakuera.

2021, Bíblia Baré, Buia Igarapé; Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory: Missão Novas Tribos do Brasil, translation of The New Testament, Luka 5:11 https://www.bible.com/bible/2986/luk.5.11 


    Then they docked their boats on the beach, left everything there and continued.

reference Avila 2021: 627
comment

Borrowed from Portuguese praia 'beach'. Displaced iwikuí, from Old Tupi.

NEW Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Old Tupian
lexeme ybyku'i
meaning 1 sand
direction
meaning 2 (Língua Geral Amazônica, metonymic) beach
reference Navarro 2013: 519, column 2 English Wiktionary
comment

Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier], Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 33, column 1, line 5; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, page 225