kupuasú
Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi kupu'yûasu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.pu.aˈsu/, (Rio Negro) [ku.pu.ʔaˈsu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: ku‧pu‧a‧sú
Noun
kupuasú (plural kupuasú-itá)
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuaçu
- → English: cupuassu
- → Spanish: cupuazú
- → Curripaco: kopowaso
- → Tariana: kupuasú
- → Yuhup: kupuwasú
References
- Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024) “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints,
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kupuasú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , page 407
Tariana
Etymology
Borrowed from Nheengatu kupuasú.
Noun
kupuasú
- cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)
- Synonym: mawilo
References
- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2001) Dicionário Tariana-Português e Português-Tariana, Belém, page 110