komixã

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.miˈʃã/
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: ko‧mi‧xã

komixã (unpossessable)

1. (North Tupi, hapax legomenon) fruit of the grumichama (Eugenia brasiliensis)

   Synonyms: îaxixá, kunhãmyxuna, ubaxa'ynha, 'ybanemixama

   • [1618, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão [attributed], “Dialogo quarto [Forth dialogue]”, in Diálogos das grandezas do Brasil [Dialogues of Brazil's greatnesses] (in Portuguese), Paraíba; republished by ABL, Rio de Janeiro: Officina Industrial Graphica, 1930, page 207:

     […] comixá, fruta muida^{[sic – meaning miuda]}, á feição de murtinhos […]

     “Komixã”, a tiny fruit similar to the myrtles.]

• → Portuguese: grumixama, grumichama (obsolete)
  • → English: grumichama

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “komixã”, 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 230, column 1