nhanduabiîu
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Old Tupi
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Etymology
[edit]From nhandu (“spider”) + abiîu (“fluff”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nhanduabiîu (unpossessable)
- whip scorpion (any arachnid in the order Thelyphonida)
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: nhanduabiju
Further reading
[edit]Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “nhanduabiîu”, 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 334, column 1