abaîeru

Old Tupi

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

abaîeru (unpossessable)

  1. (hapax legomenon) cocoplum tree (Chrysobalanus icaco) and its fruit[1]
    Synonym: gûaîeru
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter LIV, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 176:
      Abajerú é uma arvore baixa como carrasco, natural donde lhe chega o rocio do mar, pelo que se não dão estas arvores senão ao longo das praias, cuja folha é aspera, e dá uma flôr branca e pequena. O fruto é do mesmo nome e da feição e tamanho das ameixas de cá, e de côr roxa; come-se como ameixas, mas tem maior caroço; o sabor é doce e saboroso.
      “Abaîeru” is tree as short as the kermes oak, native to where the sea's dew reaches, causing it to not occur anywhere else but along the beaches. Its leaf is rough and its flower is white and small. The fruit has the same name and the size and looks of our plums, and purple-colored; they're eaten like plums, but their stone is bigger; its flavor is sweet and tasty.]

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: abajeru

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “abaîeru”, 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 7, column 2
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