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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: tu‧îu‧îu
Noun
tuîuîu (unpossessable)
- maguari stork (Ciconia maguari)
- Synonyms: magûari, tabuîaîá
Descendants
References
- Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXIX, 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 225: “Tuyuyú [Tuîuîu]”
- anonymous author (1622) “Cegonha”, 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 70: “Tujujû [Tuîuîu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tuîuîu”, 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 481, column 2
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 260–261