aîuruîuba

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) ajurujuba

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Tupian *awuru
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ajuru
Old Tupi aîuru
Proto-Tupian *wub
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *juβ
Old Tupi îub
Proto-Tupian *-ap
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
Old Tupi -a
Old Tupi aîuruîuba

    From aîuru (“parrot”) +‎ îub (“yellow”) +‎ -a.[1]

    Noun

    aîuruîuba (unpossessable) (Late Tupi)

    1. white man, specially one with blond or red hair
      Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:abá
    2. (strictly) Frenchman (native or inhabitant of France)[2]
      Synonym: maíra

    Usage notes

    Papavero & Teixeira argue that aîuruîuba originally refered to the golden parakeet (Guaruba guarouba),[3] but the term is not attested with this sense. The only known name for this bird in Old Tupi is gûyraîuba.

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: aiurujuba

    References

    1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “aîuruîuba”, 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 20, column 1
    2. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Frances [Frenchman]”, 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 143: “Ajurujuba”
    3. ^ Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 267, line 167
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