-sab

• -ab, -b, -á, -ndab

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ, from Proto-Tupian *-ap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaβ/
• Rhymes: -aβ
• Hyphenation: sab

-sab

2. forms nouns from verbs, indicating, generally, a means of action of that verb
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter L, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 97, column 1, lines 10–13; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 184:

     Ejori teremondo / Xeçuj teco angaipaba / co xeanga deruçaba / derupabamo toico.

     [Eîori t'eremondó / Xe suí tekoangaîpaba / kó xe 'anga nde rusaba / nde rupabamo t'oîkó.]

     Come to shoo the sin from me. Here's my soul, place of your arrival, it shall be your bed.

3. forms nouns from verbs, denoting the act of doing something; -ing

   Synonym: -a

4. (Late Tupi) forms abstract nouns from verbs and adjectives

   Synonym: -a

   ‎nhemoŷrõ (“to become angry”) + ‎-sab + ‎-a → ‎nhemoŷrõndaba (“wrath”)

Sense 1 can be translated in various ways and its precise meaning can only be infered by context. As a translation for îukasaba, for example, Barbosa and Navarro have listed:^[1][2]

1. killing place
2. killing time
3. killing tool
4. killing companion
5. result of killing
6. reason for killing
7. way of killing
8. effect of killing
9. ability to kill

• Nheengatu: -sawa

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “-sab(a)”, 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 435, column 1