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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sumé
- name of an entity from Tupi mythology that would have taught humanity about the use of fire, tools and agriculture
1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil, Livro primeiro (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 113, column 1:Pay, Sumê pipuera a angâba aé […]- [Pa'i, Sumé pypûera'angaba a'e […] ]
- Father, these are Sumé's footprints.
Usage notes
Because of the supposedly similarity with the name of Saint Thomas (São Tomé, in Portuguese), a legend persisted across South America that the apostle had once visisted these lands and was venerated by the Tupi and Guarani peoples.
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: Sumé
References