karamemûã

Old Tupi

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *karamemwã. Sense 4 is a semantic loan from Portuguese arca.

karamemûã (possessable)

box; ark^[1]^[2]
Synonym: (LGA) patûá
- 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 342:
  Ererou dé caramémo?
  [Ererupe nde karamemûã?]
  Have you brought your box?
(Late Tupi) coffin^[2]
(Late Tupi) grave; tomb
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:karamemûã
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter VI, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Segundo do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 44:
  Ità caramemoã pupè ynong-ì çoquẽdâpa.
  [Itakaramemûã pupé i nongi sokendapa.]
  They placed him inside a stone tomb and closed it.
(Late Tupi, Christianity) Noah's ark
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter IIII, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Segundo do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 41v:
  Igbirâ caramemoâ, Igaruçû nungara, y xupê goemimonhang-ucâroera pupê ymo arûcâ.
  [Ybyrakaramemûã, ygarusu nungara, i xupé gûemimonhangukarûera pupé i mo'aruká.]
  Making they embark a wooden ark, similar to a large canoe, of his own work.

^ anonymous author (1622), “Arca e tudo o que disso serue [Ark and everything used for this end]”, 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 40: “Caramemoã”
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 anonymous author (1622), “Caixa, caixão, etc. [Box, coffin, etc.]”, 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 63: “Caramemoã”