mboîoby

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• mboîubu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mojoβɨ.

Cognate with Guaraní mbói hovy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ᵐbɔ.jɔˈβ̞ɨ]
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: mbo‧îo‧by

Noun

mboîoby (unpossessable)

1. Lichtenstein's green racer (Philodryas olfersii)

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: boiobi, boiubu

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Cobra”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 76: “Boyobŷ [Mboîoby]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mboîoby”, 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 271, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 271