itaîngapema

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• itangapema

Noun

itaîngapema (possessable)

1. warclub

   Synonyms: ingapema, ybyrapema, ygapema

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Recebimẽto, q̃ fezeraõ oſ Jndioſ de guaraparĩ ao P^e Prouĩcial Marçal Belliarte” (chapter XXI), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], page 23v, column 2, lines 189–191; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 56:

     maẽ co xe itãgapema
     xepope ndoicoi tenhe
     pemobocaõma e.

     [Ma'ẽ kó xe itangapema / xe pópe nd'oîkóî tenhẽ / pe mombokaûama é.]

     Look, this warclub of mine is not aimlessly in my hands, it is in fact the weapon that will shatter you all.

2. (Late Tupi) sword
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter III, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Terceiro do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 54v:

     S. Pedro y tãgapema ocequij / morubixàba rembiauçuba / Malco ceribaè rapixapa, / ynambi mondôra

     [S[ão] Pedro itangapema osekyî morubixaba rembiaûsuba Malco seryba'e apixapa, i nambi mondoka.]

     Saint Peter drew the sword and struck a servant of the high priest named Malchus, cutting off his ear.

   • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 68:

     Enhonong de itaingapema ndecuaì […]

     [Enhonong nde itaîngapema nde ku'aî […] ]

     Put your sword on your waist.

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: tangapema

Noun

itaîngapema (unpossessable)

1. a tree whose wood was used to make warclubs. Further details are uncertain.

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itaîngapema”, 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 192, columns 1–2