Maîepĩ

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
Staden (1557) Meyenbipe
VLB (1622) Majepim

Proper noun

Maîepĩ

  1. Ilha de São Sebastião (an island of the captaincy of São Vicente, Brazil)
    • 1557, Hans Staden, chapter XLII, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:
      Wie wir nun eyne tage reyß von dannen waren / da ſie jren anſchlag volnbꝛingen wolten / legerten ſie ſich inß gehoͤltz bei eyn inſel / welche Sancte Sebaſtian von den Portugaleſern genant wirt / aber die Wilden heyſſen ſie Meyenbipe.
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References

  • anonymous author (1622), “Jlha de San Sebastião”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 9: “Majepim”
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