Abaykyîa

Old Tupi

Etymology

From abá (“people”) +‎ ykyî (“to drag”) +‎ -a.[1]

Proper noun

Abaykyîa

  1. (hapax legomenon) a male given name
    • [1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Noticias antecedentes (book II) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 98, column 2:
      Da meſma maneira dos Potigoares, hum antiguo Potigoaçú, Guiràopina, Arârúna, Cerobabé, Meirúguaçu, Ibátatá, Abaiquija, todos famoſos, & Principaes de grandes Pouos […]
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References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Abaykyîa”, 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 9, column 1
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