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Old Tupi
Etymology
Unknown.
Noun
kuriboka (unpossessable)
- (Late Tupi, hapax) person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and African descent
Descendants
References
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter IV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 268: “Curiboca”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuriboka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page x, column x