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

  • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Finados³ dia¹ dos²”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from 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 [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 173: “tybypoia [tybypoîa]”
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