tamûatá

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tamoata.

Noun

tamûatá (unpossessable)

1. armored catfish. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. Callichthys callichthys
   2. Hoplosternum littorale

Related terms

• tamûatarana

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: tamuatá
• → Brazilian Portuguese: tamuatá, tamboatá, tambuatá

References

• Pero de Magalhães Gândavo (1576) chapter 8, in Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil [History of the Holy Cross province, which we vulgarly call Brazil]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Antonio Gonsaluez, page 28v: “Tamoatás [Tamûatá]”
• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XL, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 247v: “Tamoata [Tamûatá]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter V (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 151: “Tamoata [Tamûatá]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tamûatá”, 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 460, 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 [16th century catalogue of the Brazilian coast's fauna as documented by European authors]”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 281