itaîngapema

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Noun

itaîngapema (possessable)

  1. warclub
    Synonyms: ingapema, ybyrapema, ygapema
    • c. 1589, Joseph of Anchieta, “Recebimẽto, q̃ fezeraõ oſ Jndioſ de guaraparĩ ao Pe Prouĩcial Marçal Belliarte” (chapter XXI), in , page 23v, column 2, lines 189–191; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 56:
      maẽ co xe itãgapema
      xepope ndoicoi tenhe
      pemobocaõma e.
      [Ma'ẽ kó xe itangapema / xe pópe nd'oîkóî tenhẽ / pe mombokaûama é.]
      Look, this warclub of mine is not aimlessly in my hands, it is in fact the weapon that will shatter you all.
  2. (Late Tupi) sword

Descendants

  • Brazilian Portuguese: tangapema

Noun

itaîngapema (unpossessable)

  1. a tree whose wood was used to make warclubs. Further details are uncertain.[1]

References

  1. ^ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 218:Entagapena [Itangapema]