manema
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]manema (unpossessable)
- (derogatory) coward (person who lacks courage)[1][2]
Descendants
[edit]- → Brazilian Portuguese: manema
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]manema
References
[edit]- ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter LVII, 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 359: “Manem [Manem[a]]”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Mofino”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 40: “Manema”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “manema”, 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, pages 256–257