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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awape.
Noun
agûapé (?)
- common water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)
Descendants
References
- anonymous author (1622) “Golfão das alagoas”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 149: “Agoape [Agûapé]”
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book I, chapter XII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 23: “Agvape [Agûapé]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûapé”, 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 13, column 2