tupinikĩ

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === tupinakyîa === Etymology === Unknown, but Eduardo de Almeida Navarro suggests Tupi +‎ ekyî +‎ -a. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [tu.pĩ.niˈkĩ] Rhymes: -ĩ Hyphenation: tu‧pi‧ni‧kĩ === Noun === tupinikĩ (unpossessable) Tupiniquim ==== Descendants ==== → Brazilian Portuguese: tupiniquim→ English: Tupiniquim === References === Hans Staden (1557), chapter XIIII, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Tuppin Ikin [Tupinikĩ]” Fernão Cardim (p. 1583), “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § III (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1298: “Tupinaquim [Tupinikĩ]” Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “tupinikĩ”, 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 484, column 2