nhamandakaru

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• îamakaru, îaramakaru

Noun

nhamandakaru (unpossessable)

1. cactus. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. mandacaru (Cereus jamacaru)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: mandakarú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: mandacaru, jamacaru, mandacarú (misspelling)
  • → English: mandacaru
  • → Spanish: mandacaru

References

• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXVIII, 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 228: “Yarammacarou [Îaramakaru]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Cardo dos figos”, 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 67: “Nhamãdacarû [Nhamandakaru]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter XV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 126: “Iamacarv [Îamakaru]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îamakaru”, 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 157, column 1