îaboti

Old Tupi

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaβoti.[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ja.β̞ɔˈti]
    • Rhymes: -i
    • Hyphenation: îa‧bo‧ti

    Noun

    îaboti (unpossessable)

    1. red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius)
    2. yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus)

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: yautí
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: jabuti, jaboti, jabotí (1931-prescribed spelling), jabutí (1931-prescribed spelling), jaboty (obsolete)

    References

    1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 164, line 3
    • anonymous author (1622) “Cagado da terra”, 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 62: “Jabotî. [Îaboti.]”
    • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îaboti”, 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 152, 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 269
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