mbyryki

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• beryki, byrygûi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ᵐbɨ.ɾɨˈki]
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: mby‧ry‧ki

Noun

mbyryki (unpossessable)

1. muriqui (any monkey of the genus Brachyteles)
   • Hans Staden (1557) chapter XV, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Briki [Mbyryki]”
   • André Thevet (1575) chapter XVII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 951v: “Muriphguy [Byrygûi]”
   • Fernão Cardim (1583–1590) untitled (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Narrativa epistolar de uma viagem e missão jesuitica, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847, page 98: “Buriqui [Mbyryki]”
   • Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Bogios”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 43; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 115, line 1114: “beriquis [beryki]”
   • anonymous author (1622) “Bogio não tem genero”, 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 56: “Bîriggui [Byrygûi]”

Derived terms

• Mbyrykioka

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: muriqui, buriqui
  • → English: muriqui

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mbyryki”, 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 274, column 1
• 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 253