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Monda'y
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Old Tupi
Etymology
From tpw mondá 'y thief river thieves’ river, in reference—according to Eduardo de Almeida Navarro Navarro—to the Palmares (quilombo) Palmares Quilombo, where the river in question originates;Mundaú 588 2 if so, the native term, if it ever existed, is possibly unknown.
Pronunciation
tpw /monaʔɨ/ [mɔ̃ⁿdaˈʔɨ]
tpw ɨ 3
Proper noun
tpw proper noun
tpw Late Tupi tpw A <<river>> in <<captaincy:Suf/Pernambuco>>, equivalent to modern-day Mundaú River, <<s/Pernambuco>> and <<s/Alagoas>>, <<c/Brazil>>.Blaeu, Joan; Marcgraf, Georg (1647), Praefecturae Paranambucae pars Meridionalis: “Mondai”
Descendants
pt Mundaú
References