Tupin.
/ˈtuːpi/, /tuːˈpiː/, U.S. /ˈtuˌpi/ a. A native language widely spoken in Brazil, which has yielded various names of animals, plants, etc.; the group of tribes speaking this language; a person belonging to one of these tribes. Also attributive.
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Patagona1544
Mochica1581
Arawak1596
Arawakan1596
Tapuia1613
Quechua1688
Galibi1698
Abipon1717
Pehuenche1756
Patagonian1767
Amazonian Indian1769
Warao1769
Tehuelche1774
Abiponian1786
two-finger1796
Guarani1797
Shipibo1805
Araucanian1809
Tupinamba1810
Muisca1814
Pampas Indian1820
Guaycuru1822
Lengua1822
Fuegian1825
Wapishana1836
Wai Wai1840
Yucatec1843
Tupi1845
Tupi-Guarani1850
Amazonian1858
Aymara1860
Jivaro1862
Lokono1868
Quechuan1871
Yucatecan1871
Yunca1871
Mapuche1876
Chibcha1877
Ona1884
Yahgan1884
Terena1891
Xavante1904
urubu1948
Saramaccan1959
Yanomamö1965
Mochican1967
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Equatorial > Tupi-Guarani > Tupi
Tupi1882
Tupian1902
1845 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2) 467 The Tupi, or native inhabitants of the Brazils.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. ii. 48 There is even a climbing genus of palms (Desmoncus), the species of which are called, in the Tupí language, Jacitára.
1882 Athenæum 9 Sept. 341/2 The widely diffused Tupi language, spoken throughout a great part of Brazil.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 410/2 Latham makes the Tupis members of the Guarani stock.
1950 C. Lévi-Strauss in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 475 The fruit of a Bignoniaceae..was used as a comb by the Tupí and other tribes.
1950 C. O. Sauer in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 499 The peanut was..important in Tupí economy.
b. Tupi-Guarani /ɡwɑːrəˈniː/, also unhyphened: a South American linguistic and ethnic stock of which Tupi and Guarani are the most prominent members; a person belonging to this ethnic stock. Also attributive. Cf. Guarani n. 1.
/ɡwɑːrəˈniː/, also unhyphened: a South American linguistic and ethnic stock of which Tupi and Guarani are the most prominent members; a person belonging to this ethnic stock. Also attributive. Cf. Guarani n. 1.ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > Indians of South America
Patagona1544
Mochica1581
Arawak1596
Arawakan1596
Tapuia1613
Quechua1688
Galibi1698
Abipon1717
Pehuenche1756
Patagonian1767
Amazonian Indian1769
Warao1769
Tehuelche1774
Abiponian1786
two-finger1796
Guarani1797
Shipibo1805
Araucanian1809
Tupinamba1810
Muisca1814
Pampas Indian1820
Guaycuru1822
Lengua1822
Fuegian1825
Wapishana1836
Wai Wai1840
Yucatec1843
Tupi1845
Tupi-Guarani1850
Amazonian1858
Aymara1860
Jivaro1862
Lokono1868
Quechuan1871
Yucatecan1871
Yunca1871
Mapuche1876
Chibcha1877
Ona1884
Yahgan1884
Terena1891
Xavante1904
urubu1948
Saramaccan1959
Yanomamö1965
Mochican1967
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Equatorial > Tupi-Guarani
Tupi-Guarani1850
Guarani1900
urubu1983
1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 443 The Guarani. Synonyms.—Tupi, Brazilian, Guarani-Brazilian, Tupi-Guarani.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 235/1 They [sc. the tribes of Brazil] belong..to one original stock, called by ethnographers, the Tupi-Guarani.
1900 N.E.D. at Jaguar According to writers on Tupi-Guarani, jaguara or jagua is orig. a class-name for all carnivorous beasts.
1933 L. Bloomfield Language iv. 73 In South America, we note..the Tupi-Guarani [family of languages], stretched along the coast of Brazil.
1956 E. I. Haugen Bilingualism in Amer. ii. 15 Tupí-Guaraní is taught in some Brazilian schools.
1968 M. Gilbert Cork in Bottle in Ellery Queen's Christmas Hamper (1975) 231 The three mestizos..were Tupi-Guaranis, half Indian, half Spanish.
1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) x. 449 Polychrome pottery closely resembling the Tupi~guarani ware of East Brazil.
Derivatives
Tupian n. and adj.
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Arawakan1596
Patagonian?1609
Arawak1625
Abiponian1786
Araucanian1809
Quechua1811
Muisca1814
Fuegian1825
Wapishana1836
Wai Wai1840
Pehuenche1843
Quechuan1862
Incarial1863
Mochica1871
Yucatecan1871
Shipibo1875
Yucatec1875
Incaean1880
Incan1885
Guaycuru1891
Jivaroan1902
Tehuelchian1902
Tupian1902
Xavante1904
Incarian1909
Abipon1912
Incaic1926
Lokono1953
Mochican1953
Saramaccan1959
Mapuche1961
Yahgan1961
Yanomamö1967
urubu1983
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Tupian
Tupian1902
urubu1983
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Equatorial > Tupi-Guarani > Tupi
Tupi1882
Tupian1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 374/1 [Linguistic families of America] Tupian, Amazon R.
1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 833 A Tupian tribe, the Chiriguano, having conquered an Arawakan one, the Chané, pushed on westward.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 187/1 Tupians, South American Indians who speak languages of the Tupian linguistic group. Tupian-speaking peoples were widespread south of the Amazon.
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