kupuí

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

• kupuaí (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi *kupu'y.

Noun

kupuí (plural kupuí-itá)

1. plant of the species Theobroma subincanum

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuí

References

• Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024) “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints, →DOI
• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kupuí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 407