tipoîa

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • typoîa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tiˈpɔ.ja]
  • Rhymes: -ɔja
  • Hyphenation: ti‧po‧îa

Noun

tipoîa (possessable)

  1. (hapax legomenon) sling; baby sling (loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby)
    • Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § I (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1291:Tupiya [Typ[o]îa]
  2. (hapax legomenon) a kind of cotton camisole worn by women
  • tipoîrana
  • Tipoîusu
  • îurubytypoîa
  • îutypoîa
  • îybatupoîa

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: tipuya
  • Portuguese: tipoia, tipói

References