tapi'irapé

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Old Tupi

tapi'irapé

Etymology

By surface analysis, tapi'ira (tapir) +‎ (path).

Compare Mbyá Guaraní tapi'i rape and Paraguayan Guaraní Mborevi Rape.

Pronunciation

Noun

tapi'irapé (unpossessable)

  1. (astronomy, hapax legomenon) Milky Way (broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky)

Descendants

  • Brazilian Portuguese: Tapirapé

References

  • anonymous author (1622) “Caminho de Santiago no ceu, uia lactea”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 64:Tapijrape
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapi'irapé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 463, column 1