xepoxepy

Old Tupi

**Old Tupi numbers ^(edit)**
^{[a], [b]} ← 10	← 13	20	40 → ^{[a], [b], [c]}
		2
Cardinal: xepoxepy

Etymology

Coined by Portuguese missionary Luís Figueira in the 17th century. Literally, “my hands, my feet”.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʃɛˌpɔ.ʃɛˈpɨ]
Rhymes: -ɨ
Hyphenation: xe‧po‧xe‧py

Numeral

xepoxepy

(hapax legomenon, Late Tupi) twenty
- c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Nomes adjectivos do ſingular, & plurar”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 3:
  Xepo xepyg […]
  [Xepoxepy […] ]

References

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “xe-pó-xe-py”, 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 509, column 1