tapi'irapé
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tapi'ira (“tapir”) + pé (“path”).
Compare Paraguayan Guaraní Mborevi Rape.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tapi'irapé (unpossessable)
- (astronomy, hapax) Milky Way (broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky)
- 1622, anonymous author, “Caminho de Santiago no ceu, uia lactea”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 64; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
- Tapijrape.
- [Tapi'irapé.]
Descendants
[edit]- → Brazilian Portuguese: Tapirapé
References
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapi'irapé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 463, column 1