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Old Tupi
Etymology
From itá + membek + -a.
Noun
itamembeka (?)(hapax)
- sea sponge[1]
- (Late Tupi) lead (chemical element)[2]
- Synonym: itaîyka
Descendants
References
- ^ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXLIII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 300: “itamanbeca ”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Chumbo”, 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 74: “Jtamembeca ”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itamembeka”, 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 193, column 1
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 299