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Old Tupi
Noun
inaîá (?)
- (North Tupi) inajá (Attalea maripa)[1]
- (hapax) fruit of the pindoba[2]
- Synonym: inaîamirĩ
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References
- ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 221v: “Ynaia [Inaîá]”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Palma ou palmeira não tem genero”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 63: “Ynajâ [Inaîá]”