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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /juˈa/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: îu‧á
Noun
îuá (unpossessable) (North Tupi)
- a solanum similar to the jurubeba. Further details are uncertain.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter IV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 63: “Iva”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îuá”, 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 195, column 2