mboîoby

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • mboîubu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mojoβɨ.

Cognate with Guaraní mbói hovy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ᵐbɔ.jɔˈβ̞ɨ]
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: mbo‧îo‧by

Noun

mboîoby (unpossessable)

  1. Lichtenstein's green racer (Philodryas olfersii)

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: boiobi, boiubu

References

  • anonymous author (1622) “Cobra”, 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 76: “Boyobŷ [Mboîoby]”
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mboîoby”, 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 271, column 2
  • Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 271
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