Ûyraûasuaba

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Old Tupi

A 1550s accounts–based 1660s map by Pierre Duval showing Ûyraûasuaba on the left side of Guanabara Bay

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ûyraûasu (“hawk”) +‎ aba (“feather”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -aβa
  • Hyphenation: Ûy‧ra‧ûa‧su‧a‧ba

Proper noun

Ûyraûasuaba

  1. (now historical) a former Tupinambá village to the west of Guanabara Bay, São Vicente Captaincy,[1] nowadays roughly in the Centro neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[2]

References

  1. ^ Jean de Léry (1578) chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 349: “Ora-ouaſſou-ouée [Ûyraûasuaba]”
  2. ^ Rafael Freitas da Silva (2020) O Rio antes do Rio [Rio before Rio] (overall work in Portuguese), Belo Horizonte: Relicário, →ISBN
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