Murukuîaûasu

Old Tupi

Etymology

From murukuîá (“passion fruit”) +‎ -ûasu (augmentative suffix), literally “big passion fruit”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mu.ɾu.ku.ja.waˈsu], [mu.ɾu.ku.ʒa.waˈsu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: Mu‧ru‧ku‧îa‧ûa‧su
  • Homophone: murukuîaûasu

Proper noun

Murukuîaûasu

  1. (hapax legomenon) a male given name[1]

References

  1. ^ Jean de Léry (1578) chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 351: “Morgouia-ouaſſou [Murukuîaûasu]”
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