îanypaba

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janɨpaβ.

Cognate with Guaraní ñandypa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -aβa
  • Hyphenation: îa‧ny‧pa‧ba

Noun

îanypaba (?)

  1. genipap (Genipa americana)[1]
    Synonym: îanypaba'yba
  2. genipap (fruit of the genipap tree)
    • 1622, anonymous author, “Tingir com janipapo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 128; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
      Aimonguigjanigpaba rece.
      [Aîmongy îanypaba resé.]
      I paint it with genipap.

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: yenipawa
  • → Portuguese: jenipapo

References

  1. ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter I (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 92: “Ianipaba [Îanypaba]”
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