mokõî oîoirundyk

Old Tupi

**Old Tupi numbers ^(edit)**
^{[a], [b]} ← 5	8	10 → ^{[a], [b]}
Cardinal: mokõî oîoirundyk Ordinal: *mokõî oîoirundyka

Coined by Portuguese-Brazilian missionary Antônio de Araújo in 1618. Literally, “two four”, or more loosely translated as “two times four”.

(hapax, Late Tupi) eight
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Ianuarius”, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica […], Catalogo dos dias Santos de guarda, & de jejum (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 3:
  Mocôy oyòirundìc oito àra cìc-eme, T. taira oci, çuîy àrirê, iudeos ecômonhangàbo yapîra mondòc-i […]
  [Mokõî oîoirundyk oito 'ara sykeme, Tupã ta’yra o sy suí i 'ar'iré, iudeos ekomonhangábo i 'apira mondoki […] ]
  When the day eight came, after the birth of God the Son from his mother, his foreskin was cut following the Jewish law.

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