patygûá

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
d'Évreux (1615) patoua
VLB (1622) patuguâ
Marcgrave (1648) patiguá

Etymology

Unknown. Displaced karamemûã in sense 2 from the 18th century onwards.

Noun

patygûá (possessable)

  1. hamper, type of basket made from palm leaves, wicker basket[1][2]
    Synonym: ûaraîa (Língua Geral Amazônica)
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VII (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 272:
      Caniſtra faciunt ex foliis Palmæ, & appellant Patiguá: in his recondunt quicquid habent. Alios quoque præterea habent corbes ex arundinibus concinnatos. Hanc ſuppellectilem generali nοmine νocant Curamemon.
      A basket made with palm leaves and called “patygûá”: this is where they store whatever their have. They also have other baskets made of reeds. They call these by the generic name “karamemûã”.]
    • [1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Noticias antecedentes (book I) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 74, column 2, line 120:
      […] o patiguá (que he como caixa de palhas) pera guardar pouco mais q̃ a rede, cabaço, & cuya […]
      The “patygûá” (which is like a wicker box) for keeping little more than the hammock, gourd and bowl.]
  3. (Língua Geral Amazônica) box; ark[3][4][5][6][7]
    Synonym: karamemûã

Derived terms

  • patuamirĩ
  • Patuá

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: patuá
  • → Portuguese: patuá, patiguá, picuá

References

  1. ^ Yves d’Évreux (1613–1614), chapter L, in Suite de l'Histoire des Choses plus mémorables, advenuës en Maragnan és années 1613 et 1614, volume 2, part 1 (overall work in French), Paris: François Huby, published 1615, page 397: “Ererou patoua? [Ereru patuá?]”
  2. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Canastra”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 65: “Patuguâ [Patugûá]”
  3. ^ Arronches, João de (1739), “ARCA [Ark]”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 109: “patuá [patuá]”
  4. ^ Frei Onofre (1751), “Arca [Ark]”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 15, column 1: “Patuâ [Patûá]”
  5. ^ Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Arca e tudo o que disto serve [Ark and anything for this purpose]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 5r, column 2, line 4; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 111: “patüá [patuá]”
  6. ^ anonymous author (c. 1757), “Arca [Ark]”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 18: “pâtuâ [patuá]”
  7. ^ anonymous author (18th century), “Arca. Caixa. [Ark. Box.]”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎[1] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 53v: “Patuá”

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