Iperuûasu
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From iperu (“shark”) + -ûasu (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -u
Proper noun
[edit]Iperuûasu
- a male given name
References
[edit]- Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXII, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Ipperu Waſu [Iperuûasu]”