Urubutingygûaba

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === === Etymology === From urubutinga (“king vulture”) +‎ 'ygûaba (“place where water is drunk”), literally “the place where the king vulture drinks water”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /u.ɾu.βu.tĩ.ŋɨˈwa.βa/ === Proper noun === Urubutingygûaba (now historical) a former Tupinambá village in Maranhão Captaincy, nowadays in Alcântara, Maranhão, Brazil ==== Notes ==== Although using as source Claude d'Abbeville, in whose work it is recorded that Oroboutin-eugouäue is "[le] dixieſme [village]" of "Tapouytapere", Eduardo de Almeida Navarro mistakenly listed Urubutĩgûaba in his dictionary as an anthroponym instead of the expected toponym, as shown here. === References === Claude d'Abbeville (1614), chapter XXXIII, 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] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 187: “Oroboutin-eugouäue” Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Urubutĩgûaba”, 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 501, column 2