Tebiresá

Old Tupi

Etymology

From tebira (“buttocks”) +‎ esá (“eye”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛ.βi.ɾɛˈsa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: Te‧bi‧re‧sá

Proper noun

Tebiresá

  1. a male given name

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: Tibiriçá

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Tebiresá”, 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 469, column 2
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