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Old Tupi
Etymology
Coined by Portuguese-Brazilian missionary Antônio de Araújo in 1618. Literally, “two four”, or more loosely translated as “two times four”.
Numeral
mokõî oîoirundyk
- (hapax, Late Tupi) eight
1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Ianuarius”, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Catalogo dos dias Santos de guarda, & de jejum (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 3:Mocôy oyòirundìc oito àra cìc-eme, T. taira oci, çuîy àrirê, iudeos ecômonhangàbo yapîra mondòc-i […]- [Mokõî oîoirundyk oito 'ara sykeme, Tupã ta’yra o sy suí i 'ar'iré, iudeos ekomonhangábo i 'apira mondoki […] ]
- When the day eight came, after the birth of God the Son from his mother, his foreskin was cut following the Jewish law.