marãpe nde rera

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Old Tupi

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The phrase in the 1540s manuscript Le langaige du Bresil, spelled marabinderere

Alternative forms

marãpe ne rera

Etymology

Literally, “how your name?”.

Pronunciation

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Phrase

marã pe nde rera

what is your name?
— Marãpe nde rera?
— Xe rera Pindobusu.
— What is your name?
— My name is Pindobusu.
- c. 1540, Jehan Lamy, Le langaige du Bresil (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), page 53, line 22:
  MARABINDERERE
  [Marãpe nde rera]
  What is your name
- 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 341:
  Mara-pé-deréré?
  [Marãpe nde rera?]
  What is your name?

References

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “marã?”, 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 259, column 1

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