tupinikĩ

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• tupinakyîa

Etymology

Unknown, but Eduardo de Almeida Navarro suggests Tupi +‎ ekyî +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tu.pĩ.niˈkĩ]
• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: tu‧pi‧ni‧kĩ

Noun

tupinikĩ (unpossessable)

1. Tupiniquim
   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Na Aldeia de Guaraparim]” (chapter LXIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Guarapari, page 156v, column 1, lines 727–731; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 297:

     Tacejane moxirõ / taçone paratijpe / Tupinaquija reigpe / amo amo taijbõ
     Xete cori reritipe

     [— T'aseîáne moxy rõ. / T'asóne parati'ype / tupinakyîa re'yîpe / amõamõ t'aîybõ.
     — Xete kori Reritype.]

     — I shall leave the evil one at least. I will go to the Parati river, to the Tupiniquim band, to hit some of them with arrows.
     — Unlike you, today I go to Rerytiba.

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter XXXI, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], page 31, column 1, lines 1–8; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 70:

     Xeparatij çui
     aiu tupãci repiaca
     guinhemoyegoayegoaka
     xeroribaõamari.
     Cori catu xe ibija
     Jporangatu rece
     çoriba xe yabe
     xeruba tupuna quija.

     [Xe Parati'y suí / aîu Tupã sy repîaka / gûinhemoîegûaîegûaka / xe rorybaûama ri. / Sorykatu xe ybỹîa / I porangatu resé / Soryb, xe îabé / xe ruba tupinakyîa.]

     From the Parati river I come to see God's mother, adorning myself for my coming happiness. Very happy is my core with Her great beauty. He's happy, like me, my Tupiniquim father.

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: tupiniquim
  • → English: Tupiniquim

References

• Hans Staden (1557) chapter XIIII, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Tuppin Ikin [Tupinikĩ]”
• Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § III (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1298: “Tupinaquim [Tupinikĩ]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tupinikĩ”, 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 484, column 2