kupi'ĩ

• kupi'i (Língua Geral Amazônica)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kupiʔi, from Proto-Tupian *ᵑkupˀi.

• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: ku‧pi‧'ĩ

kupi'ĩ (unpossessable)

1. termite (any insect in the taxon Isoptera)

• Nheengatu: kupĩ
• → Brazilian Portuguese: cupim

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXXIII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 272: “Copî”
• anonymous author (1622) “Formiga 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 142: “Cupij”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Bichos, que comem e roem pannos, paos etʒ”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 7v, column 1, line 7; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 121: “cupií”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “formiga branca”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 141: “CUPIM […] CUPII”

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kupi'ĩ”, 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 243, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 1