tapy'yîuna
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
- tapy'yînhuna
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ta.pɨ.ʔɨˈj̃ũna]
- Rhymes: -ũna
- Hyphenation: ta‧py‧'y‧îu‧na
Noun
tapy'yîuna (?)
- Black person
- African slave
Descendants
- → Kariri: tapɨɲu
- Nheengatu: tapayuna
- → Portuguese: tapanhaúna
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapy'yîuna”, 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 464, column 2