pirapu'ama repoti

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
Knivet (1591) pirapoun arepoty
VLB (1622) pirâpoâma repoti

Etymology

Literally, “whale feces”.

Noun

pirapu'ama repoti (?)

  1. ambergris
    Synonyms: pirapoti, mboîgûasurepoti
    • 1591, Anthony Knivet, “The admirable aduentures and ſtrange fortunes of Maſter Antonie Knivet, which went with Maſter Thomas Candish in his ſecond voyage to the South Sea”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 4th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], published 1625, →OCLC, 6th book, § 3, page 1224:
      We found great ſtore of Ambergreece, which the Indians call Pirapoun Arepoty, here fortune was ſomewhat fauourable vnto me, for I got aboue fiue hundred Crownes in this iourney.
    • [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 II) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 172, column 2, line 97:
      Chamão os Indios ao ambar pirapuama repoti […]
      The Indians call the ambergris “pirapu'ama repoti”.]

References

  • anonymous author (1622), “Ambre”, 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 34: “Pirâpoâma repoti [Pirapu'ama repoti]”

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