xepoxepy

Old Tupi
Old Tupi numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  10  ←  13 20 40  → 
2
    Cardinal: xepoxepy

Etymology

Coined by Portuguese missionary (c. 1575 – 1643) Luís Figueira in the 17th century. Literally, “my hands, my feet”.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʃɛˌpɔ.ʃɛˈpɨ]
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: xe‧pó‧xe‧py

Numeral

xepoxepy

  1. (hapax, Late Tupi) twenty
    • 1687 [1621], Luís Figueira, “Nomes adjectivos do ſingular, & plurar”, in Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina de Miguel Deslandes, page 4:
      Xepó xepyg […]
      [Xepoxepy […] ]

References
  1. Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “xe-pó-xe-py”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 509, column 1
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