agûapé

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awape.

Noun

agûapé (?)

1. common water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: awapé
• → Brazilian Portuguese: aguapé

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Golfão das alagoas”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 149: “Agoape [Agûapé]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book I, chapter XII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 23: “Agvape [Agûapé]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûapé”, 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 13, column 2