îuá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juˈa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: îu‧á

Noun

îuá (unpossessable) (North Tupi)

1. a solanum similar to the jurubeba. Further details are uncertain.

Derived terms

• îuatĩ

Related terms

• îuapekanga
• îuapytá
• îuaumbu

Descendants

• → Portuguese: juá

References

• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter IV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 63: “Iva”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îuá”, 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 195, column 2