ambeaîó

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Old Tupi

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Etymology

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From ambé (crotch) +‎ aîó (bag).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ã.ᵐbɛ.aˈjɔ]
  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: a‧mbe‧a‧îó

Noun

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ambeaîó (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tambeaîó, R1 rambeaîó, R2 sambeaîó)

  1. marsupium (pouch of a marsupial)
    Holonym: sarigûeîa

References

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  • anonymous author (1622) “Bolso do raposo em q. cria os filhos”, 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 57:Çambêajô [Sambeaîó]
  • 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 176, column 2:tambeó [tambe[aî]ó]
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ambeaîó”, 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 30, column 1