araryboîa

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Old Tupi

araryboîa

Etymology

By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) +‎ 'yba (“plant”) +‎ mboîa (“snake”), literally “snake of the macaws' plant”. See also araryba. For the b + m(b)/p > b sound change, compare 'ybotyra ('yba + potyra), kuabe'eng (kuab + me'eng), obeba (oba + peba), etc.[1] Compare also cobra-papagaio, one of the Portuguese names for the snake, seemingly a calque.

Pronunciation

Noun

araryboîa (unpossessable)

  1. emerald tree boa (venomous snake from the boid family, which climbs trees and can reach up to 2 meters in length)

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: araramboia

References

  1. ^ Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 37

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