Gûatapytyba
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Old Tupi
Etymology
From gûatapy (“sea snail, or its shell”) + tyba (“gathering”), literally “gathering of sea snails, or of its shells”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gûatapytyba
- (now historical) a former Tupian village in São Vicente Captaincy; nowadays Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Descendants
- → Portuguese: Guatapitiba (learned)
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûatapy”, 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 136, column 2