tupãok
Appearance
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from tupãoka (“house of worship”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tupãok (noun form tupãoka)
- (Late Tupi, religion) to have a house of worship (usually a Catholic church)
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, page 63, lines 142–146; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 691:
- Maene, Tupinãba
Paraguaçupe ndaroera,
ytupã ocibae puera
opacatu yamomba
nitibetei çembiroera- [Ma'ẽne, tupinambá
Paragûasupendarûera,
i tupãokyba'epûera,
opakatu îamombá.
N'i tybetéî sembyrûera.] - Look, the Tupinambás
who were in Paraguaçu
and had their churches,
we destroyed them all.
Not even their remains are left.
- [Ma'ẽne, tupinambá
Declension
[edit] Declension of tupãok (consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi adjectives)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tupãoka”, 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 483, column 1