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Old Tupi
Etymology
From tupã (“thunder”) + beraba (“shine”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tupãberaba (?)
- lightning
- Synonym: amãberaba
Descendants
References
- Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 359: “Toupen verap [Tupãberaba]”
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter XI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 278: “Tupaberaba [Tupãberaba]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tupãberaba”, 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 483, column 2