gûaîá

Old Tupi

gûaîá (Calappa ocellata)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈja/, [ɡʷaˈja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: gûa‧îá

Noun

gûaîá (unpossessable)

1. ocellate box crab (Calappa ocellata)

Derived terms

• gûaîaapara
• gûaîakatu
• gûaîamirĩ
• gûaîamũ
• gûaîapinima
• gûaîaranha
• gûaîauru
• gûaîausá

Descendants

• → Portuguese: guaiá, goiá, guajá

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûaîá”, 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 129, column 2
• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José