tybypoîa

Old Tupi

Etymology

From tyby (“grave”) +‎ poî (“to offer”) +‎ -a, literally “grave offering”.

Noun

tybypoîa (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. (Christianity) All Souls' Day

Descendants

• Nheengatu: teyupuya, tipipuya, tiyipuya

References

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Finados³ dia¹ dos²”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 20v, column 2, line 38; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 173: “tybypoia [tybypoîa]”