gûyrapuka

Old Tupi

Etymology

From gûyrá (“bird”) +‎ puka (“hole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wɨˌɾaˈpu.ka]
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: gûy‧ra‧pu‧ka

Noun

gûyrapuka (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. (hapax) a type of trap used to catch birds

Descendants

• Nheengatu: arapuka
• → Brazilian Portuguese: arapuca

References

• João Daniel (a. 1776) chapter 18, in Tesouro Descoberto no Rio Amazonas (in Portuguese), volume 1; republished as Leandro Tocantins, editor, Anais da Biblioteca Nacional, volume 95, tome I, Rio de Janeiro, 1976, page 128: “guira puca”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “puka”, 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 409, column 2