tipoîa
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
- typoîa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tiˈpɔ.ja]
- Rhymes: -ɔja
- Hyphenation: ti‧po‧îa
Noun
tipoîa (possessable)
- (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]”
- (hapax legomenon) a kind of cotton camisole worn by women
- Hans Staden (1557) chapter II, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Typpoy [Tipoî[a]]”
Related terms
- tipoîrana
- Tipoîusu
- îurubytypoîa
- îutypoîa
- îybatupoîa
Descendants
- Nheengatu: tipuya
- → Portuguese: tipoia, tipói
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tipoîa”, 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, pages 479–480