setú
Kariri
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cesto (“basket”).
Noun
setú (5th declension, 3rd person singular susetú) (Kipeá)
- (hapax legomenon) basket
- 1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri (in Portuguese), pages 23–25:
- A eſta quinta Declinaçaõ pertencem […] os nomes ſeguintes […] Setù, ceſto.
- To this fifth declension belong […] the following nouns […] Setù, basket.
References
- Arion Dall’Igna Rodrigues (1942) “SETÙ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2, page 209