apûã
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Old Tupi
[edit]Noun
[edit]apûã (possessable)
- labium superius oris; upper lip
- Coordinate term: embé (“lower lip”)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Pero de Castilho (1613) “beiço de cima”, in Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 29, line 41: “Apoã [Apûã]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “apûã”, 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 51, column 1