English
genipap
Genipap comes from Brazilian Portuguese jenipapo, and goes back to tup-gua-pro *janɨpaβ.
- tup-gua-proprehistoric (reconstructed)*janɨpaβreconstructed
- Old Tupimodernîanypaba
- Brazilian Portuguesemodernjenipapo
- Englishearliest quotation 2019genipap
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- tup-gua-proprehistoric (reconstructed)*janɨpaβreconstructed
- Old Tupimodernîanypaba
- Brazilian Portuguesemodernjenipapo
- Englishearliest quotation 2019genipap
Earliest quotation: 2019, Luzia Valentina Modolo, Mary Ann Foglio: “Unripe genipap fruits are widely used by indigenous tribes…”
The story
The Tupi meaning of the word is variously given as yandi-pawa or yandi-pab (‘fruit for painting’), yandi-ibá-pab (‘fruit of the extremities for painting’), and without citation or explanation, “breast of an old woman”.
Every English word from tup-gua-pro *janɨpaβ
Today it means
noun The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / tup-gua-pro *janɨpaβ / genipap