kamixá

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi kamixá, from Portuguese camisa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.miˈʃa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ka‧mi‧xá

Noun

kamixá

1. shirt
   • 1890 [1872–1887], “Curupira yepé cunhan irumo [Curupira and a woman]” (chapter VI), in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, page 59:

     Yepé apegaua o ricu, paá, chemericó, o ricu tayra miri cuaira eráin. / Cuá apegaua yepé ara o ço u camonó i o iuanti Curupira irumo. Curupira, paá, o iucá aé. Ariri, paá, o pirare nhaan apegaua petêra rupi; ariri, paá, o iuúca i pêá pêá; ariri, paá, iuêre iuúca i cerora camichá o mundéua cecé; ariri, paá, i o muácuaema aé uana o ço nhaan apegaua cuêra remericó pêre […]

     There was once a man, they say, with a wife and a young son. One day, this man went hunting and encountered the Curupira. The Curupira, they say, killed him. Then, they say, he cut him in half and took his liver; then, they say, he took his pants and shirt and wore them himself; then, they say, he disguised himself and went looking for the deadman's wife.

   • 2012, Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, Maurício Adu Schwade, editors, Yẽgatu Resewa = Yẽga, yũbuesa ĩdijina, Manaus: Edua, page 94:

     Aé umundéu kamixá piranga.

     He wore a red shirt.

Derived terms

• kamixawasú
• kamixá yuwá
• kamixá-ima

 

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN
• Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “kamixá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎^[2] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 365–366