karukasy

From karuka (“afternoon, evening”) +‎ asy (“pain”), literally “afternoon pain, evening pain”.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: ka‧ru‧ka‧sy

karukasy (possessable)

1. the feeling of missing someone
2. sadness, melancholy

karukasy (noun form karukasy)

1. wistful, sad, melancholic

   Synonym: porepîaka'ub

   • 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 138:

     Ché-carouc-aſſi […]

     [Xe karukasy.]

     I'm sad.

   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Do primeiro noviſsimo, que he a morte” (chapter I), in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Oitavo dos quatro novissimos do homen (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 156:

     Ndeiteê oyoepiácaûpa ocarucacîramo.

     [Nd'e'i te'e oîoepîaka'upa, o karukasyramo.]

     It's no wonder they miss each other, becoming sad.

   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Do primeiro noviſsimo, que he a morte” (chapter I), in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Oitavo dos quatro novissimos do homen (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 156:

     (...) cunhã (...) omẽbíra reõneme oyaceô erecô pucû, putuna yabiõ onhemoingotebémo ocarûcacíramo, xemembîrimma oyâbo, coriteĩ aibetè erecanhé xe çuî oyabo amanõipô coribe xemembira raquipoerine oyâbo cepiacaúba çuine, oyâbo (...)

     [(...) kunhã (...) o membyra re'õneme, oîase'oerekopuku, putuna îabi'õ onhemoingotebẽmo, o karukasyramo, "xe membyrĩ mã" o'îabo, "korite'ĩaibeté erekanhẽ xe suí" o'îabo, "amanõ ipó kori bé, xe membyra rakypûerine" o'îabo, "sepîaka'uba suíne" o'îabo (...)]

     (...) women (...) when their children die, remain in long mourning, every night distressing themselves, becoming sad, saying "oh, my little son", saying "in a moment you disappeared from me", saying "I will die resolutely today, after my son", saying "so as not to miss him" (...)

1. to miss someone

   Synonym: epîaka'ub

   • 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 113; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Xecarucacig. (rece(.

     [Xe karukasy (abá) resé.]

     I miss someone.

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “karukasy”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 223, column 1