tataeíra
Old Tupi edit
Etymology edit
From tatá (“fire”) + eíra (“bee”),[1] referring to its painful bite.
Noun edit
tataeíra (unpossessable)
- bee of the species Oxytrigona tataira
- Synonym: kabesé
Descendants edit
- Nheengatu: tatá-ira
- Brazilian Portuguese: → tataíra, → abelha-de-fogo (calque)
References edit
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tataeíra”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 466, column 1