Aîurûasu

Old Tupi

Etymology

From aîurûasu.[1]

Proper noun

Aîurûasu

  1. (hapax legomenon) a male given name
    • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, 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] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 184:
      Le ſecond eſt Aiourou-Ouäſſou, c'eſt à direle grand Perroquet.
      The second [chief] is “Aîurûasu”, that's to say “big parrot”.]

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Aîurûasu”, 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 19, column 2
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