Mbyrykioka
Old Tupi
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Etymology
[edit]From mbyryki (“muriqui”) + oka (“house”).
Proper noun
[edit]Mbyrykioka
- The mouth of the Bertioga channel and its surroundings, next to the São João da Bertioga fort, in São Vicente captaincy, Brazil, where nowadays Bertioga city is located.
Descendants
[edit]- → Brazilian Portuguese: Bertioga
References
[edit]- Hans Staden (1557) chapter XV, 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: “Brikioka [Mbyrykioka]”
- Fernão Cardim (1583–1590) untitled (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Narrativa epistolar de uma viagem e missão jesuitica, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847, page 98: “Buriquioca [Mbyrykioka]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Bertioga”, 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 547, column 2