kamixá

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Nheengatu

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Germanic *hamô
    Proto-West Germanic *hamō
    Proto-West Germanic *-iþi
    Proto-West Germanic *hamiþibor.
    Late Latin camisia
    Old Galician-Portuguese camisa
    Portuguese camisabor.
    Old Tupi kamixá
    Nheengatu kamixá

    Inherited from Old Tupi kamixá, from Portuguese camisa.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ka.miˈʃa/
    • Rhymes: -a
    • Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧xá

    Noun

    kamixá (plural kamixá-itá)

    1. shirt
      • 1890 [1872–1887], “Curupira yepé cunhan irumo” (chapter VI), in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, page 59:
        Yepé apegaua o ricu, paá, chemericó, o ricu tayra miri cuaira eráin. / Cuá apegaua yepé ara o ço u camonó i o iuanti Curupira irumo. Curupira, paá, o iucá aé. Ariri, paá, o pirare nhaan apegaua petêra rupi; ariri, paá, o iuúca i pêá pêá; ariri, paá, iuêre iuúca i cerora camichá o mundéua cecé; ariri, paá, i o muácuaema aé uana o ço nhaan apegaua cuêra remericó pêre […]
        There was once a man, they say, with a wife and a young son. One day, this man went hunting and encountered the Curupira. The Curupira, they say, killed him. Then, they say, he cut him in half and took his liver; then, they say, he took his pants and shirt and wore them himself; then, they say, he disguised himself and went looking for the deadman's wife.
      • 2012, Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, Maurício Adu Schwade, editors, Yẽgatu Resewa = Yẽga, yũbuesa ĩdijina, Manaus: Edua, page 94:
        Aé umundéu kamixá piranga.
        He wore a red shirt.
      • 2016, Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, “Mbuesawa 3: São Gabriel upé”, in Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN:
        Aikwé kamixá-itá puranga nhaã piripanasawa ruka upé.
        There are beautiful shirts in that store.

    Derived terms

    References

    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kamixá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português‎ (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 365–366

    Old Tupi

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Portuguese camisa.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ka.miˈʃa/
      • Rhymes: -a
      • Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧xá

      Noun

      kamixá (possessable)

      1. (LGA) shirt
        • a. 1756, Anton Meisterburg, “Humida cousa”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 183, line 17; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica (in Portuguese), Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI:
          […] iiakým xe camixá […]
          [ […] i îakym xe kamixá […] ]
          My shirt is humid.

      Descendants

      • Nheengatu: kamixá
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