mboîpeba
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mboîa (“snake”) + peb (“flat”) + -a.[1] The snake flattens its body when threatened.
Noun
[edit]mboîpeba (unpossessable)
- Wagler's snake (Xenodon merremii)
- Synonym: îararakapeba
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: buya-pewa
- Portuguese: → boipeva, boipeba, goipeba, pepeua, pepeva, → cobra-chata (calque)
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mboîpeba”, 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, pages 271–272