mbyryki

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • beryki, byrygûi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ᵐbɨ.ɾɨˈki]
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: mby‧ry‧ki

Noun

mbyryki (unpossessable)

  1. muriqui (any monkey of the genus Brachyteles)
    • Hans Staden (1557) chapter XV, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Briki [Mbyryki]”
    • André Thevet (1575) chapter XVII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d'André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 951v: “Muriphguy [Byrygûi]”
    • Fernão Cardim (1583–1590) untitled (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Narrativa epistolar de uma viagem e missão jesuitica, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847, page 98: “Buriqui [Mbyryki]”
    • Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Bogios”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 43; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: INL, 1966, page 115, line 1114: “beriquis [beryki]”
    • anonymous author (1622) “Bogio não tem genero”, 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 56: “Bîriggui [Byrygûi]”

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: muriqui, buriqui
    • → English: muriqui

References

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