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Old Tupi
Etymology
From pindoba + -usu.
Noun
pindobusu (?)
- (hapax) palm tree leaves used as roofing
Derived terms
References
- Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LV, 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 190: “pindobuçú [pindobusu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pindobusu”, 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 383, column 2