kuriboka

Old Tupi

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

kuriboka (unpossessable)

1. (Late Tupi, hapax) person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and African descent

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: caboclo, caboco
  • → English: caboclo
  • → Hunsrik: Kabock

References

• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter IV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 268: “Curiboca”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuriboka”, 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 x, column x