Urubutingygûaba
Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]| Historical spellings | |
|---|---|
| d'Abbeville (1614) | Oroboutin-eugouäue |
Etymology
[edit]From urubutinga (“king vulture”) + 'ygûaba (“place where water is drunk”), literally “the place where the king vulture drinks water”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Urubutingygûaba
- (now historical) a former Tupinambá village in Maranhão Captaincy, nowadays in Alcântara, Maranhão, Brazil
Notes
[edit]- Although using as source Claude d'Abbeville, in whose work it is recorded that Oroboutin-eugouäue is "[le] dixieſme [village]" of "Tapouytapere", Eduardo de Almeida Navarro mistakenly listed Urubutĩgûaba in his dictionary as an anthroponym instead of the expected toponym, as shown here.
References
[edit]- Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 187: “Oroboutin-eugouäue”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Urubutĩgûaba”, 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 501, column 2