Murutityba

Old Tupi

Etymology

From muruti (“moriche palm”) +‎ tyba (“abundance”).[1]

Proper noun

Murutityba (Língua Geral Amazônica)

  1. (hapax legomenon) a tributary of the Xingu river, near the Aricará settlement, captaincy of Grão-Pará, Brazil; modern Senador José Porfírio

References

  1. ^ Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 47v, column 2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 279: “Murutitýba”
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