kupuasú

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi kupu'yûasu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.pu.aˈsu/, (Rio Negro) [ku.pu.ʔaˈsu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ku‧pu‧a‧sú

Noun

kupuasú (plural kupuasú-itá)

1. cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuaçu
  • → English: cupuassu
  • → Spanish: cupuazú
• → Curripaco: kopowaso
• → Tariana: kupuasú
• → Yuhup: kupuwasú

References

• Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024) “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints, →DOI
• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kupuasú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 407

Tariana

Etymology

Borrowed from Nheengatu kupuasú.

Noun

kupuasú

1. cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)

   Synonym: mawilo

References

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2001) Dicionário Tariana-Português e Português-Tariana, Belém, page 110