kupu'yûasu
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editFrom *kupu'y (“cupuí”) + -ûasu (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkupu'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 Lªisle de Maragnan et terres circonuoisines […] (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 (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 243, column 2