kariîó
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Old Tupi
Etymology
Noun
kariîó (?)
- (now historical, South Tupi) an indigenous people that lived in South Brazil
Related terms
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: carijó
References
- Fernão Cardim (1585) “Da diversidade de nações e linguas”, in Indios do Brasil (in Portuguese); republished as Capistrano de Abreu, editor, Do principio e origem dos indios do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Gazeta de Noticias, 1881, page 52: “Carijo [Kariîó]”
- Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 354: “Kario [Kariîó]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kariîó”, 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 222, column 1