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to take care of (animals)
Tupi iya uduk dua iku
Shetakes care of two dogs
to raise (children)
Kenyau ari Alan mit,tupi aki iya laban apai indai iya udah midang
Since Alan was little, grandparaise him because his parents has passed away

Old Tupi

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Etymology

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FromTupi, a mythological figure said to be the ancestor of all Tupian peoples.^[1]

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /tuˈpi/
Rhymes:-i
Hyphenation:tu‧pi
Homophone:Tupi

Noun

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tupi (unpossessable)

Tupi(any of several related indigenous nations of coastal Brazil that spokeOld Tupi)
- c.1583, Joseph of Anchieta,Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence],Niterói, page33, lines110–114; republished inEduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins,Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes,2006,→ISBN:
  Kûeîsé, r'akó, amõ kanhemi, / ogûeîypa Magûeápe. / Abaré ogû erasoá'pe, / n'asaûsubi, i nhegûasemi, /tupi supa xe rekoá'pe.
  Yesterday, for certain, some have gone missing, going down to Magûeá. Because the priests took them, I don't love them, they fled, visiting theTupi in my home.
- c.1585, Joseph of Anchieta,Na aldeia de Guaraparim [In the village of Guaraparim],Guarapari, page142, lines183–192; republished inEduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins,Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes,2006,→ISBN:
  —[…]Paranãgûasu rasapa, / ybytyrybo gûibebébo, / asótupi moangaîpapa, / a'e ré, muru mombapa, / xe ratápe seroîkébo.
  — Mba'e apŷabap'aîpó?
  — Tupinakyîa, keygûara, / tĩapyra moroupîara. / Muru, anhẽ, oîanga'o! / Nd'oîabyangáî îaguara...
  — Crossing the ocean, flying over the mountains, I went to make theTupi sin, bringing them to my fire after that to kill the damned. / — Which men are these? / —The Tupiniquim, who live here, enemy informants. The damned, indeed, vituperate them! They truly are no different than the jaguars...
(strictly) theTupian people that lived in theSão Vicente capitancy.

Related terms

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Descendants

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Nheengatu:tupí
→ Portuguese:tupi

References

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^Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tupi”, inDicionário 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,page484, column 1

Portuguese

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PortugueseWikipedia has an article on:

tupi

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Alternative forms

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tupí(1931-prescribed spelling or misspelling)

Etymology

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Borrowed fromOld Tupitupi.

Pronunciation

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(Brazil)IPA^(key): /tuˈpi/

(Portugal)IPA^(key): /tuˈpi/

Rhymes:-i
Hyphenation:tu‧pi

Noun

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tupi m or f by sense (pluraltupis)

Tupi(a member of the Tupi tribes of Brazil)

Noun

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tupi m (uncountable)

Old Tupi(an extinct language of Brazil)
Synonyms:língua geral,tupi clássico
(proscribed)Nheengatu(a modern language of Brazil)
Synonym:nheengatu

Usage notes

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Tupi was first used to refer to the language in early 20th century, making it anexonym. The Portuguese called itlíngua brasílica(“Brazilian language”) andlíngua geral(“General language”) in the 16th and 17th centuries, but there are no records of what name native speakers gave to it.