araryboîa

== Old Tupi == === 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) emerald tree boa (venomous snake from the boid family, which climbs trees and can reach up to 2 meters in length) ==== Descendants ==== → Portuguese: araramboia === References === === Further reading === Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “araryboîa”, 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 60, column 1