Akara'y

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Old Tupi

A 1550s accounts–based 1660s map by Pierre Duval showing Akara'y on the right side of Guanabara Bay

Etymology

From akará (“fish of the Cichlidae family”) +‎ 'y (“river”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: A‧ka‧ra‧'y
  • Rhymes: -ɨ

Proper noun

Akara'y

  1. (now historical) a former Tupinambá village to the east of Guanabara Bay, São Vicente Captaincy,[1] nowadays roughly in the Icaraí neighborhood, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil[2]

Descendants

  • Portuguese: Icaraí

References

  1. ^ Jean de Léry (1578) chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 349: “Acara-u [Akara'y]”
  2. ^ Rafael Freitas da Silva (2020) O Rio antes do Rio [Rio before Rio] (overall work in Portuguese), Belo Horizonte: Relicário, →ISBN
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