samambaîa
Appearance
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sama (“rope”) + paîa (“weight”), literally, “weight rope”, or more loosely translated as “pendant rope”, referring to the shape of its leaves.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]samambaîa (unpossessable)
- Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
- forked fern (any fern in the genus Dicranopteris)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “samambaîa”, 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 437, column 1