kapuweri

• kapoeweri (superseded)

From Portuguese capoeira (“glade; clearing; area of land devoid of trees”),^[1] possibly from Old Tupi kopûera, Old Tupi ka'apûera, or Old Tupi ka'apaũ. Possibly influenced by kapu (“chop, fell”) and wiwiri (“plant, weed”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /kap(u)ˈweɾi/, ,

kapuweri

1. second-growth forest; thicket, shrubland, brushwood (vegetation that regenerates after the clearing of primary forests)
   • (in German), archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     kappewirri junger Busch, wieder aufgeschossenes Gesträuch.

     Kapuweri. Young bushes, shrubbery that has shot up again.]

   • 1951, Albert Helman, “Gadodede [Slender dayflower]”, in Adyosi / Afscheid‎, Nijmegen: Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, published 1994, page 20:

     Nengre tek' en srapu owru / g' a prenasi, kap' wan gron, / tan te wroko brok' en skowru, / fala ala bigi bon, / kapu wana, fala pisi, / fala san en owru kisi, / krin kapuweri seibi lo, - / gadodede tan fu gro!

     The black man took his sharp machete / went to the plantation, to clear a plot, / stayed until the work broke his shoulders, / felled all the big trees, / chopped down red louro, cut down laurels / cut down what his machete could get at, / cleared thickets, seven rows, - / the slender dayflower kept on growing!

   • 1959, Trefossa, “Owrukuku ben kari [The owl called out]”, in Ursy M. Lichtveld, Jan Voorhoeve, editors, Creole drum. An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam‎, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, published 1975, →ISBN, page 212:

     A no strey nomo wi abi fu strey wi libi langa nanga grasi, kapuweri èn pina?

     [A no strei nomo wi abi fu strei wi libi langa nanga grasi, kapuweri èn pina?]

     After all, isn't it a struggle we have to wage all our lives with grass, thickets and hardship?

   • 1983, Pieter Seuren, “Overwegingen bij de spelling van het Sranan en een spellingvoorstel [Considerations regarding the spelling of Sranan and a spelling proposal]”, in OSO. Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde en geschiedenis‎, Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, →ISSN, page 79:

     Ebi kapuweri ben e gro na libakanti, so furu taki yu no ben kan si pasá mindri a kapuweri disi.

     [Hebi kapuweri ben e gro na libakanti, so furu taki yu no ben kan si psa mindri a kapuweri disi.]

     Heavy brushwood grew on the riverbank, so much that you couldn't see beyond the middle of this brushwood.

• → Dutch: kapoeweri