Mbyrykioka

Old Tupi

Etymology

From mbyryki (“muriqui”) +‎ oka (“house”).

Proper noun

Mbyrykioka

1. (now historical) A channel and its surroundings next to the São João da Bertioga fort, in São Vicente captaincy, Brazil, where nowadays Bertioga is located.

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: Bertioga

References

• Hans Staden (1557) chapter XV, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America] (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Brikioka [Mbyrykioka]”
• Fernão Cardim (1583–1590) untitled (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Narrativa epistolar de uma viagem e missão jesuitica, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847, page 98: “Buriquioca [Mbyrykioka]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Bertioga”, 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 547, column 2