tapy'yîuna

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• tapy'yînhuna

Etymology

From tapy'yîa +‎ una.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.pɨ.ʔɨˈj̃ũna]
• Rhymes: -ũna
• Hyphenation: ta‧py‧'y‧îu‧na

Noun

tapy'yîuna (?)

1. Black person
2. African slave

Descendants

• Nheengatu: tapayuna
• → Portuguese: tapanhaúna

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapy'yîuna”, 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 464, column 2