tapuîa

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈpu.ja/
• Rhymes: -uja
• Hyphenation: ta‧pu‧îa

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• tapu'yîa, tapy'yîa

Noun

tapuîa (unpossessable)

1. a non-Tupi Native American

Noun

tapuîa (female equivalent tapuîpera) (possessable)

1. slave man

   Synonym: miaûsuba

Derived terms

• tapy'ymirĩ
• tapy'yîuna

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: tapuia

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiɨj.

Alternative forms

• tapyîa

Noun

tapuîa (possessable)

1. shack (crude, roughly built hut or cabin)
2. ramada

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapuîa”, 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 464, column 1