itaaoba
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editFrom itá (“metal”) + aoba (“clothes”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edititaaoba (possessable)
- (Late Tupi, hapax) body armor
- Coordinate terms: amynyîuaoba, amynyîuaopoanama
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itaaoba”, 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 192, column 1
- anonymous author (1622) “Armas brancas deffenciuas”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 41: “Itaaoba.”