nhe'engerekoara

Old Tupi

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupian *weʔeŋ

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jeʔeŋ

Old Tupi nhe'eng

Proto-Tupian *-ap

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?

Old Tupi -a

Old Tupi nhe'enga

Old Tupi erekó

Proto-Tupian *-at

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-ar

Old Tupi -sar

Old Tupi -a

Old Tupi nhe'engerekoara

From nhe'enga (“language”) +‎ erekó (“to have”) +‎ -ar (deverbalizer suffix) +‎ -a, literally “language haver”.^[1]

nhe'engerekoara (possessable)

(Late Tupi) interpreter (person who converts spoken language in real time)
- 1622, anonymous author, “Lingoa, o q. disso serue a outro”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 22; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
  Abarê nheengerecoara.
  [Abaré nhe'engerekoara.]
  The priest's interpreter.

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “nhe'engerekoara”, 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 338, column 1