mani'yba

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • mandi'yba
Historical spellings 
d'Abbeville (1614) manieup
Marcgrave (1648) maniiba

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *maniʔɨβ. By surface analysis, *mani +‎ 'yba.

    Noun

    mani'yba (?)

    1. cassava plant (Manihot esculenta)
      Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:mani'yba
      • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 229v:
        Le Manioch eſt vne racine prouenant d'vne plante ou petit arbreau appellé Manieup […]
        The “mani'ok[a]” is a root that comes from a plant or small tree called “mani'yb[a]” […] ]
      • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter VI (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 65:
        MAndiiba & Maniiba Braſilienſibus, cujus radix Mandioca vocatur.
        “Mandi'yba” and “mani'yba” from Brazil, whose root is called “mandi'oka”.]

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: maniva

    Further reading

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