Akaîutebiró

Old Tupi

Akaîutebiró

Etymology

From akaîu (“cashew tree”) +‎ tebiró (“sodomite, sterile”), literally “sterile cashew tree”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.kaˌju.tɛ.βiˈɾɔ], [a.kaˌʒu.tɛ.βiˈɾɔ]
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: A‧ka‧îu‧te‧bi‧ró

Proper noun

Akaîutebiró

1. a bay in Paraíba Captaincy, nowadays in Baía da Traição, Paraíba, Brazil

Descendants

• → Portuguese: Acajutibiró

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Acajutibiró”, 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 541, column 1