kupuasú

Nheengatu

Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Tupi kupu'yûasu.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ku.pu.aˈsu/, (Rio Negro) [ku.pu.ʔaˈsu]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: ku‧pu‧a‧sú

    Noun

    kupuasú (plural kupuasú-itá)

    1. cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuaçu
      • → English: cupuassu
      • → Spanish: cupuazú
    • → Curripaco: kopowaso
    • → Tariana: kupuasú
    • → Yuhup: kupuwasú

    References

    • Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024), “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints, →DOI
    • Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “kupuasú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 407

    Tariana

    Etymology

  • Borrowed from Nheengatu kupuasú.

    Noun

    kupuasú

    1. cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum)
      Synonym: mawilo

    References

    • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (2001), Dicionário Tariana-Português e Português-Tariana, Belém, page 110
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