sapaîu

Old Tupi

Noun

sapaîu (unpossessable)

1. sapajou. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. black-striped capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus)
   2. Kaapori capuchin (Cebus kaapori)

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: sapaju
• → French: sapajou
  • → English: sapajou
  • → Translingual: Sapajus

References

• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, 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 252v: “Sapaiou [Sapaîu]”
• Yves d’Évreux (1613–1614) chapter XLV, in Suite de l’Histoire des Choses plus mémorables, advenuës en Maragnan és années 1613 et 1614, volume 2, part 1 (overall work in French), Paris: François Huby, published 1615, page 400: “Sapaious [Sapaîu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sapaîu”, 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 437, column 2