Aru'ype

Old Tupi

Etymology

From aru +‎ 'y +‎ -pe, literally “in the Surinam toad river”.[1]

Proper noun

Aru'ype

  1. (hapax legomenon) a former Tupinambá village near Alcântara, captaincy of Maranhão, Brazil
    • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXIII, 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 187:
      Le ſeptieſme ſappelle Aroüeupe, c'eſt à dire la place des Crapaux.
      The seventh [village] is called Aru'ype, which means “the place of toads”.]

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Aru'ype”, 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 64, column 1
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