itaîngapema

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

itangapema

Noun

itaîngapema (possessable)

warclub
Synonyms: ingapema, ybyrapema, ygapema
- c. 1589, Joseph of Anchieta, “Recebimẽto, q̃ fezeraõ oſ Jndioſ de guaraparĩ ao P^e Prouĩcial Marçal Belliarte [Reception that the Guaraparim's Indians made for the provincial priest Marçal Beliarte]” (chapter XXI), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, 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.
(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)

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

References

^ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 218: “Entagapena [Itangapema]”

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

[1] Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 218: “Entagapena [Itangapema]”

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