mboîoby
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
- mboîubu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ᵐbɔ.jɔˈβ̞ɨ]
- Rhymes: -ɨ
- Hyphenation: mbo‧îo‧by
Noun
mboîoby (unpossessable)
- Lichtenstein's green racer (Philodryas olfersii)
- 1622, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 76; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
- Boyobŷ.
- [Mboîoby.]
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: boiobi, boiubu
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mboîoby”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 271, column 2
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 271
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