kaûĩ

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
Anchieta (1555) caõy
Staden (1557) Kaa.wy
Araújo (1618) cáõ y
VLB (1622) caoỹ

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kawĩ (“fermented drink, corn drink”).

    Compare Mbya Guarani kaguijy and Paraguayan Guarani kaguy.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kãˈwĩ/
    • Rhymes: -ĩ
    • Hyphenation: ka‧ûĩ

    Noun

    kaûĩ (possessable)

    1. cauim (traditional alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation of cashews, manioc or maize)[1]
      Synonym: kaûĩeté
      • [1557, Hans Staden, chapter XVII, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:
        WJr musten uns aber jrer auff zwo zeite im jare mehr besorgen dann sonst / furnemlich wen sie jrer Feinde landt mit gewalt gedencken einzunemen / Vnd diese zwo zeit sein / die eyn im Monat Nouembri / so werden etliche Fruecht reiffe / die heysset auff jre sprache Abbati / daruon machen sie eyn getrencke / dz heysset Kaa.wy.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
      • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. Lço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 65v, lines 258–260; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 122:
        Derori / tiniçemumã caõy / cetanhe, ygaçabuçu
        [Nde rory / tynysẽ umã kaûĩ / setá nhẽ, ygasabusu]
        Be happy, the cauim is overflowing. The pots are so large.
    2. (Late Tupi) wine[2]
      Synonyms: kaûĩaîa, kaûĩymûana
      • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Corpus Chriſti”, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Catalogo dos dias Santos de guarda, & de jejum (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 5r:
        […] miapè opòpe goemiiara y moyebi goetèramo, cáõ y guiguiramo.
        [ […] miapé o pópe o emiîara i moîebyû o etéramo, kaûĩ og ugûyramo.]
        The bread he [Jesus] took in his hands was given back as his own body, the wine as his own blood.

    Derived terms

    • i kaûĩgûasuba'e
    • ka'u
    • Kaûmondá
    • kaûĩ'a
    • kaûĩ'yba
    • Kaûĩagûé
    • kaûĩaîa
    • kaûĩaîasy
    • kaûĩe'ẽ
    • kaûĩeté
    • kaûĩkaraku
    • kaûĩmakaxera
    • kaûĩpiranga
    • kaûĩpyasu
    • kaûĩtatá
    • kaûĩymûana

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: kawĩ
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: cauim, cauí
    • → French: caouin

    References

    1. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Uinho qualquer [Any wine]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 146: “Caoỹ”
    2. ^ Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Vinho [Wine]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 42v, column 2, line 17; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 261: “caoĩ”

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