gûyrapuka

== Old Tupi == === Etymology === From gûyrá (“bird”) +‎ puka (“hole”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [wɨˌɾaˈpu.ka] Rhymes: -uka Hyphenation: gûy‧ra‧pu‧ka === Noun === gûyrapuka (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica) (hapax legomenon) a type of trap used to catch birds ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: arapuka → Brazilian Portuguese: arapuca === References === João Daniel (a. 1776), chapter 18, in Tesouro Descoberto no Rio Amazonas (in Portuguese), volume 1; republished as Leandro Tocantins, editor, Anais da Biblioteca Nacional, volume 95, tome I, Rio de Janeiro, 1976, page 128: “guira puca” Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “puka”, 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 409, column 2