kupu'yûasu
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Old Tupi
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Etymology
[edit]From *kupu'y (“cupuí”) + -ûasu (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kupu'yûasu (unpossessable)
- (North Tupi) cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: kupuasú
References
[edit]- Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 222v: “Copouih Ouaſſou [Kupu'yûasu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kupu'yûasu”, 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 243, column 2