karamuru

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
d'Abbeville (1614) caramourou
VLB (1622) caramuru / caramurû

Noun

karamuru (unpossessable)

  1. moray eel
    • [p. 1583, Fernão Cardim, chapter XV, in Do clima e terra do Brasil (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 88:
      Caramurú. — Estes peixes são como as amoreas de Portugal, de comprimento de dez, e quinze palmos […]
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    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CXXXII, 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 261:
      Chamam os indios ás moréas caramurú, das quaes ha muitas, mui grandes e mui pintadas como as de Hespanha, as quaes mordem muito, e tem muitas espinhas, e são muito gordas e saborosas; não as ha senão junto das pedras, onde as tomam ás mãos.
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    • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XL, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 246:
      Il ya le Caramourou aſſez ſemblable à l'Anguille, long d'une braſſe & demie & gros à proportion , il ſe trouue auſſi ordinairement ſoubs les rochers, il eſt ſort bon , mais ſa morſure eſt bien dangereuſe.
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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: karamurú
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: caramuru

References

  • anonymous author (1622), “Lampréa [Lamprey]”, 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 18: “Caramuru”
  • anonymous author (1622), “Morêa do mar [Sea moray]”, 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 42: “Caramurû”
  • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Lambrea [Lamprey]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 25r, column 1, line 24; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 191: “caramurú”

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