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Old Tupi
Etymology
From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kopaʔɨβ + Old Tupi -a.
Noun
kopa'yba (?)
- copaiba tree.[1][2][3] Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
- diesel tree (Copaifera langsdorffii)
- copaiba (oleoresin extracted from such trees)[4]
Descendants
References
- ^ Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § V (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1308: “Cupayba [Kopa'yba]”
- ^ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LVIII, 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 196: “copaîba [kopa'yba]”
- ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter XVII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 130: “Copaiba [Kopa'yba]”
- ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Medicina Brasiliensi, book IV, chapter IV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 56: “Copaiba [Kopa'yba]”