komandá

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kumana.

Noun

komandá (?)

1. a native bean species. Further details are uncertain.
2. (Late Tupi) common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)

   Synonym: komandamirĩ

Derived terms

• komanda'ĩ
• komandagûasu
• komandagûyra
• komandamirĩ

Descendants

• Nheengatu: kumandá
• → Brazilian Portuguese: comandá

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “komandá”, 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 299, column 2
• anonymous author (1622) “Feijão”, 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 136: “Comãdâ”
• Frei Onofre (1751) “Feijaõ”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 40, column 1: “Comandâ”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Feijaõ, legumen”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 20, column 2, line 21; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 171: “comandá”
• anonymous author (c. 1757) “Fava”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 65: “comanda”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “feijão”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 140: “COMENDÁ”