tapanhú

• tapɨɲu (Dzubukuá)

Borrowed from Old Tupi tapy'yînhuna.

• IPA^(key): /tapaɲu/
• Rhymes: -u

tapanhú (unknown possessiveness) (Kipeá)

1. (hapax legomenon) Black person

   Synonyms: gorá (Kipeá), goh (Pedra Branca, Sabujá)

   • 1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri, page 59:

     Erì tapanhù, idiohò ſidi torarã hinhà

     This is the Black man to whom I gave the letter

     (literally, “This is the Black man, to him the letter was given by me”)

• Arion Dall’Igna Rodrigues (1942), “TAPANHÙ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2, page 209