atu'uba

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• atuuba

Etymology

From atu (“wife”) +‎ uba (“father”).

Noun

atu'uba (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tatu'uba, R1 ratu'uba, R2 tatu'uba)

1. uxorial father-in-law

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “atu'uba”, 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 70, column 1