kuîmbuka
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Old Tupi
Etymology
From kuîa (“calabash”) + bok (“to split”) + -a; thus called because the bowl was made with a half of the split fruit.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
kuîmbuka
Descendants
- → Portuguese: cumbuca, cuiambuca
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuîmbuka”, 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 240, column 2
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