Pakukaîa

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings
Anchieta (1555)	Pacucaya

Etymology

From paku (“pacu”) +‎ kaî (“to burn oneself”) +‎ -a (nominal suffix), literally “burned pacu”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paˌkuˈkaj.a]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: Pa‧ku‧kaî‧a

Proper noun

Pakukaîa

1. (now historical) a former Tupinambá village in São Vicente Captaincy, nowadays in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 117, lines 142–151; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 691:

     Maene, Tupinãba / Paraguaçupe ndaroera, / ytupã ocibae puera / opacatu yamomba / nitibetei çembiroera // Yaupa Moçupiroca, / Yequej, guatapitiba, / Nheterõya, Paraiba / Guayayo, Carijo oca / Pacucaya, Araçatiba.

     [Ma'ẽne, tupinambá / Paragûasupendarûera, / i tupãokyba'epûera, / opakatu îamombá. / N'i tybetéî sembyrûera. // Îa'upá Mosupyroka, / Îekeí, Gûatapytyba, / Nheterõîa, Paraíba, / Gûaîaîó, Kariîooka, / Pakukaîa, Arasatyba.]

     Look, the Tupinambás who were in Paraguaçu and had their churches, we destroyed them all. Not even their remains are left. We devoured all the Moçupiroca, Jequeí, Guatapitiba, Niterói, Paraíba, Guajajó, Carioca, Pacucaia, Araçatiba.

Descendants

• → Portuguese: Pacucaia