pirapu'ã

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• pirapu'ama

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní pirapuã. By surface analysis, pirá (“fish”) +‎ pu'am (“standing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [piˌɾa.puˈʔã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: pi‧rá‧pu‧'ã

Noun

pirapu'ã (unpossessable)

1. whale (any large marine mammal in infraorder Cetacea)

Derived terms

• pirapu'ama repoti

 

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXXV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 278: “pirapuã [pirapu'ã]”
• Antonie Knivet (1591) “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet” (chapter VII), in Samuel Purchas, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, volume 4 (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1224: “Pirapoun a [Pirapu'ã]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Ambre”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 34: “Pirâpoâma [Pirapu'ama]”
• Simão de Vasconcellos (1663) Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil, Livro segundo, das noticias curiosas, antecedentes, das cousas do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 172, column 2: “pirapuama [pirapu'ama]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pirapu'ã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 386, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 251