kuîmbuka
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Old Tupi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From kuîa (“calabash”) + bok (“to split”) + -a; thus called because the bowl was made with a half of the split fruit.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kuîmbuka
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuîmbuka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 240, column 2