tupãberaba
Old Tupi
Etymology
From tupã (“thunder”) + beraba (“shine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tupãβɛˈɾaβa/
Noun
tupãberaba (?)
- lightning
- Synonym: amãberaba
Descendants
- Nheengatu: tupã-werawa
References
- Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XX, 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 359: “Toupen verap [Tupãberaba]”
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter XI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 278: “Tupaberaba [Tupãberaba]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tupãberaba”, 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 483, column 2
- 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 107, column 2: “Tupá beraba [tupãberaba]”