Eiraîá

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Old Tupi

Etymology

From eíra (“bee, honey”) +‎ îá (“fullness”), literally “fullness of bees, honey”, or eîrara (“tayra”) +‎ îá (“fullness”), literally “fullness of tayras”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): ,
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: E‧i‧ra‧îá

Proper noun

Eiraîá

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

Descendants

  • Portuguese: Irajá

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: “Eiraia [Eiraîá]”
  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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