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She holds that 'Tãyas erey' or 'Tãya serey' should be read 'Tanaz serey, 'I shall be tenacious' for Tanaz is old Portuguese for Tenaz and that the Y is nothing but a rebus or picture of a tenaz or pair of pincers, and indeed the Y's are very like pincers.
The carvers were doubtless quite illiterate and may well have thought that the pincers in the drawing from which they were working were a letter and may therefore have mixed them up to the puzzling of future generations. Or since nowhere is 'Tayaz serey' written with the 'z' may not the first 'y' be the final 'z' of Tanaz misplaced?
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