ambeaîó

Old Tupi

Etymology

From ambé (“crotch”) +‎ aîó (“bag”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ã.ᵐbɛ.aˈjɔ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Hyphenation: a‧mbe‧a‧îó

Noun

ambeaîó (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tambeaîó, R1 rambeaîó, R2 sambeaîó)

  1. marsupium (pouch of a marsupial)
    Holonym: sarigûeîa

References

  • anonymous author (1622) “Bolso do raposo em q. cria os filhos”, 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 57: “Çambêajô [Sambeaîó]”
  • Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter II (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 223: “Tambejo”
  • Simão de Vasconcellos (1663) Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Livro segundo, das noticias curiosas, antecedentes, das cousas do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 176, column 2: “tambeó [tambe[aî]ó]”
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ambeaîó”, 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 30, column 1
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