potigûara

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• pitikoara, pitigûara

Etymology

Named after chieftain Potigûara, from potĩ (“shrimp”) +‎ gûara (“eater”).

Noun

potigûara (unpossessable)

1. Potiguara, a Tupian people from Northeast Brazil
2. Potiguara, a member of this people
   • 1645 August 19, Antônio Filipe Camarão, Letter to Pedro Poti (Camarão Indians' letters; 1), page 1:

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     [Oré resé omaramonhãba'e, apŷabaíba pitikoara, kanhẽmbabi Serinha'ẽme. Apŷabaíba pytybõsara opakatu i kanhemi kûesé akỹ maramonhangápe. Apŷabaíba irũnamo o a'o resé omaramonhãba'epûera, opakatu i kanhemi oré suí. N'onheme'engi îeí ãgûa supé quartel. Marãnamo, kó yby poretéramo ãgûa rekóreme?]

     The ones that fought us, the evil men Potiguara, all died in Serinha'ẽ. Everyone that helped the evil men sadly died in battle yesterday. The ones that fought alongside the evil men, for their own disgrace, have all died by our hands. Today their lives were not spared. Why this, if they are the true inhabitants of this land?

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: potiguar, potiguara