miapé

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi miapé, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mɨjape. Displaced by pãu.

Noun

miapé (plural miapé-itá)

1. (archaic) Synonym of pãu

Related terms

• miapeantã
• miapé-munhangara

 

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “miapé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 476

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• myîapé

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mɨjape.

Cognate with Guaraní mbujape.

Noun

miapé (possessable, IId class pluriform, absolute miapé, R1 remiapé, R2 semiapé, R3 o emiapé)

1. bread (baked dough made from cereals)
   • 1618, Cristóvão Valente, “Outra do Santissimo Sacramento”, in Antônio de Araújo, compiler, Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Cantigas na lingoa pera os mininos da Sancta Doctrina (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, unnumbered page:

     MIapé íbac igoâra
     Abiá bebé remiû.
     Xeanga recó pucú.

     [Miapeybakygûara / Apŷabebé remi'u. / Xe 'anga rekopuku]

     Heavenly bread, angel's food. My soul's eternal life.

   • 1687, João Filipe Bettendorff, “Da comunhão”, in Compendio da Doutrina Christãa Na lingua Portugueza, e Brasilica [Compendium of the Christian Doctrine in the Portuguese and Brasílica Language] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 86; republished as José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo, editor, Lisbon: Offic. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1800:

     Marãpe miapé iande iâra JESUS Christo retéramo, caöĩ abé çuguŷramo iiecuaboki?

     [Marãpe miapé Îandé Îara Jesus Cristo retéramo, kaûĩ abé sugûyramo i îekûaboki?]

     How does bread turn into Jesus Christ's body and wine into blood?

Descendants

• Nheengatu: miapé

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Pão, ou bolos de qualquer farinha q. seião”, 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 64: “Miape [Miapé]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(e)miapé”, 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 99, columns 1–2