Anhangupîara

Old Tupi

Etymology

From Anhanga +‎ upîara (“enemy”).[1]

Proper noun

Anhangupîara

  1. (hapax legomenon) a male given name
    • c. 1589, Joseph of Anchieta, “Recebimẽto, q̃ fezeraõ oſ Jndioſ de guaraparĩ ao Pe Prouĩcial Marçal Belliarte [Reception that the Guaraparim's Indians made for the provincial priest Marçal Beliarte]” (chapter XXI), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, page 24r, column 2, lines 247–249; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 57:
      Te, ajuca Macaxera / omanõgatu mochi. / Anhangupiara, xe rera.
      [Té, aîuká Makaxera / omanõngatu moxy. / Anhangupîara, xe rera.]
      At last, I killed Makaxera, the bastard died. Anhangupîara is my name.

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Anhangupîara”, 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 40, column 2
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