411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
'Ykatu
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Eucatou
Etymology
From tpw 'y katu water good good water.
Pronunciation
tpw [ˌʔɨ.kaˈtu]
tpw u 3
Proper noun
tpw proper noun
tpw now _ historical tpw a <<former>> Tupinambá <<village>> in <<captaincy:Suf/Maranhão>>, nowadays in <<city/São Luís>>, <<s/Maranhão>>, <<c/Brazil>>
Notes
Although using as source Claude d'Abbeville, in whose work it is recorded that tpw Eucatou is "fr [le] fr vingt et unième vingt & vnieſme [village]" of the "fr fr île Iſle de Maragnan", Eduardo de Almeida Navarro mistakenly listed tpw 'Ykatu in his dictionary as an anthroponym instead of the expected toponym, as shown here.
References
XXXII 184v Eucatou
'Ykatu 528 1