Mbyrykioka

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
Staden (1557) Brikioka / Britioka

Etymology

From mbyryki (“muriqui”) +‎ oka (“house”).[1]

Proper noun

Mbyrykioka

  1. the mouth of the Bertioga channel and its surroundings, next to the São João da Bertioga fort, in São Vicente captaincy, Brazil, where the modern Bertioga city is located
    • [1557, Hans Staden, chapter XV, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:
      ES ligt eyn oꝛt landes fuͤnffmeil von ſancte Vincente der heyſſet Bꝛikioka […]
      There lies a place five miles from São Vicente, called Mbyrykioka.]
    • [1585 October 16, Fernão Cardim, chapter 1, in Narrativa epistolar (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 351:
      Chegámos em seis dias por termos sempre calmarias á barra do Rio, nomeado de Buriquioca, sc. cova dos bogios, e por o nome corrupto Bertioga, aonde está a nomeada fortaleza […]
      We arrived in six days since we've always had calm waters at the river's sandbank, named Mbyrykioka, sc. “monkey's cove”, known by the corrupted name “Bertioga”, where the fortress is located.]

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: Bertioga

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Bertioga”, 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 547, column 2
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