kuîmbuka
Old Tupi edit
Etymology edit
From kuîa (“calabash”) + bok (“to split”) + -a; thus called because the bowl was made with a half of the split fruit.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kuîmbuka
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuîmbuka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 240, column 2