araryboîa
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Old Tupi
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Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) + 'yba (“plant”) + mboîa (“snake”), literally “snake of the macaws' plant”. See also araryba. For the b + m(b)/p > b sound change, compare 'ybotyra ('yba + potyra), kuabe'eng (kuab + me'eng), obeba (oba + peba), etc.[1] Compare also cobra-papagaio, one of the Portuguese names for the snake, seemingly a calque.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]araryboîa (unpossessable)
- emerald tree boa (venomous snake from the boid family, which climbs trees and can reach up to 2 meters in length)
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: araramboia
References
[edit]- ^ Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 37
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “araryboîa”, 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 60, column 1