kuîa

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ja/
• Rhymes: -uja
• Hyphenation: ku‧îa

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuj + Old Tupi -a.

Cognate with Tocantins Asurini kosa, Cocama kuja, Aurá kwi and Tembé kuj.

kuîa (possessable, IId class pluriform, absolute kuîa, R1 rekuîa, R2 sekuîa, R3 o ekuîa)

1. calabash (fruit of the calabash tree Crescentia cujete)
2. calabash (container made of this fruit)

• Nheengatu: kuya
• → Portuguese: cuia, cuya (obsolete)
  • → Hunsrik: Kui

From kuî (“to fall”) +‎ -a.

kuîa (possessable)

1. fall, in the sense of detaching from something

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(e)kuîa”, 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 97, column 1