Murukuîaûasu
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From murukuîá (“passion fruit”) + -ûasu (augmentative suffix), literally “big passion fruit”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): [mu.ɾu.ku.ja.waˈsu], [mu.ɾu.ku.ʒa.waˈsu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: Mu‧ru‧ku‧îa‧ûa‧su
- Homophone: murukuîaûasu
Proper noun
[edit]Murukuîaûasu
- (hapax) a male given name[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Jean de Léry (1578) chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 351: “Morgouia-ouaſſou [Murukuîaûasu]”
