kupuasú

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Nheengatu

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Tupi kupu'yûasu.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ku.pu.aˈsu/, (Rio Negro)
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: ku‧pu‧a‧sú

    Noun

    kupuasú (plural kupuasú-itá)

    1. cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuaçu
      • → English: cupuassu
      • → Spanish: cupuazú
    • → Curripaco: kopowaso
    • → Tariana: kupuasú
    • → Yuhup: kupuwasú

    References

    • Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024) “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints, →DOI
    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kupuasú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 407

    Tariana

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Nheengatu kupuasú.

      Noun

      kupuasú

      1. cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)
        Synonym: mawilo

      References

      • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2001) Dicionário Tariana-Português e Português-Tariana, Belém, page 110
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