itaekobé
Appearance
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From itá (“metal”) + ekobé (“living”), literally “living metal”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]itaekobé (?)
- (Late Tupi) mercury (chemical element)
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itaekobé”, 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 192, column 1