Gûaratyba

Old Tupi

Etymology

From gûará (“scarlet ibis”) +‎ tyba (“gathering”), literally “gathering of scarlet ibises”.[1]

Proper noun

Gûaratyba

  1. a shoal in São Vicente Captaincy, equivalent to modern-day Restinga da Marambaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[1]

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: Guaratiba, Guaratuba

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jácome Monteiro (1610), Relação da província do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Serafim Leite, editor, História da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil, volume VIII, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1949, page 397: “Guaratiba”
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