murukuîá

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• marakuîá

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *murukuja.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní mburukuja.

Noun

murukuîá (?)

1. passionflower (any plant in the genus Passiflora)
2. passion fruit (edible fruit of the passionflower)

Related terms

• murukuîagûasu (“giant granadilla”)
• murukuîamirĩ (“purple granadilla”)

 

undentified species

• murukuîaeté
• murukuîamixyra
• murukuîapiruna
• murukuîatymãkuîa
• murukuîayperoba
• murukuîaúna

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: murukuyá
• → Portuguese: maracujá (see there for further descendants)

References

• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 183: “Margoyaue [Mar[a]kuîá]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter IX (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 71: “Mvrvcvia [Murukuîá]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “murukuîá”, 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 319, column 2