Kariîooka

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Old Tupi

A 1550s French accounts–based 1660s map by Pierre Duval showing the Kariauc village right under the Tropic line.

Etymology

    From kariîó +‎ oka (house).

    Proper noun

    Kariîooka

    1. (now historical) a former Carijó village in Guanabara bay, São Vicente captaincy, Brazil
      • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, 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 and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 352:
        F Mamo-pè ſetam?
        T Kariauh-bè
        [F[rançoys] Mamõpe setama?
        T[upinambá] Kariîo[oky]pe]
        Frenchman: Where is their residence?
        Tupinambá: In Kariîooka.
      • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço” (chapter XLIV), in , Niterói, page 63, lines 142–151; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 117:
        Maene, Tupinãba
        Paraguaçupe ndaroera,
        ytupã ocibae puera
        opacatu yamomba
        nitibetei çembiroera
        Yaupa Moçupiroca,
        Yequej, guatapitiba,
        Nheterõya, Paraiba
        Guayayo, Carijo oca
        Pacucaya, Araçatiba.
        [Ma'ẽne, tupinambá / Paragûasupendarûera / i tupãokyba'epûera / opakatu îamombá / n'i tybetéî sembyrûera / îa'upá Mosupyroka, / Îekeí, Gûatapytyba, / Nheterõîa, Paraíba, / Guaîaîó, Kariîooka, / Pakukaîa[,] Arasatyba.]
        Look, the Tupinambás who were in Paraguaçu and had their churches, we destroyed them all. Not even their remains are left. We devoured everyone at Moçupiroca, Jequeí, Guatapitiba, Niterói, Paraíba, Guajajó, Carioca, Pacucaia, Araçatiba.
    2. Carioca (a river in Guanabara bay, São Vicente captaincy, Brazil)

    Descendants

    • Brazilian Portuguese: carioca
      • English: Carioca

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