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Etymology
Compare Apalaí tapyi, Pemon tapüi, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi tapui.
Pronunciation
Noun
tapyi (possessed tapyiry)
- large communal house, community center, town hall
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 383
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “tapui”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 456; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 446