kupu'yûasu
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *kupu'y (“cupuí”) + -ûasu (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupu'yûasu (unpossessable)
- (hapax, North Tupi) cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)
- 1614, Claude d'Abbeville, Histoire de la Mission des Peres Capucins en Lªisle de Maragnan et terres circonuoisines […][1] (overall work in French and Old Tupi), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 222v:
- Copouih Ouaſſou […]
- [kupu'yûasu […] ]
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: kupuasú
References
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kupu'yûasu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 243, column 2