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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kurupir. By surface analysis, kurub (“warty”) + pira (“skin”).
Cognate with Guaraní Kurupi.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kurupira
- name of a entity of Tupian mythology that had the feet turned backwards and would kill people wandering in the forests
1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter VI, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica, Livro Sexto do Confessionário (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 102v:28.p.Erecîquîjpe Anhanga, tagoaîba, curupira Iarupari, coipoteõ abáçupe?- [Eresykyîpe Anhanga, Tagûaíba, Kurupira, Îurupari koîpó te'õ abá supé?]
- Had you summoned Anhanga, Taguaíba, Curupira, Jurupari or the death of someone?
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References
- Joseph of Anchieta (1560) (overall work in Portuguese); republished as chapter X, in Júlio Afrânio Peixoto, compiler, Cartas, informações, fragmentos historicos e sermões (Cartas jesuiticas; 3), Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1933, page 128: “corupira [Kurupira]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Kurupira”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 245, column 1