samambaîa

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Old Tupi

samambaîa (sense 1)
samambaîa (sense 2)

Etymology

From sama (“rope”) +‎ paîa (“weight”), literally, “weight rope”, or more loosely translated as “pendant rope”, referring to the shape of its leaves.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sã.mãˈᵐba.ja/
  • Rhymes: -aja
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ma‧mba‧îa

Noun

samambaîa (unpossessable)

  1. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
  2. forked fern (any fern in the genus Dicranopteris)

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: samambaya
  • → Portuguese: samambaia (“fern”)

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “samambaîa”, 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 437, column 1
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