araryboîa

Old Tupi

araryboîa

Etymology

By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) +‎ 'yba (“plant”) +‎ mboîa (“snake”), literally “snake of the macaws' plant”. See also araryba. For the b + m(b)/p > b sound change, compare 'ybotyra ('yba + potyra), kuabe'eng (kuab + me'eng), obeba (oba + peba), etc. Compare also cobra-papagaio, one of the Portuguese names for the snake, seemingly a calque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.ɾa.ɾɨˈβɔj.a]
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ry‧boî‧a
• Homophone: Araryboîa

Noun

araryboîa (unpossessable)

1. emerald tree boa (venomous snake from the boid family, which climbs trees and can reach up to 2 meters in length)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: araramboia

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “araryboîa”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 60, column 1