Kyrymuré

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Old Tupi

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown, perhaps related to an Old Tupi name for fish of the Mugilidae family.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: Ky‧ry‧mu‧ré

Proper noun

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Kyrymuré

  1. a bay in Bahia Captaincy, equivalent to modern-day Bay of All Saints, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil[2]
    Synonym: Paragûasu
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  1. (now historical) a former Tupinambá village to the east of Guanabara Bay, São Vicente Captaincy,[3] nowadays between Niterói and São Gonçalo, roughly in the Neves neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil[1]

Descendants

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  • Portuguese: Quirimurê

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rafael Freitas da Silva (2020) O Rio antes do Rio [Rio before Rio], Belo Horizonte: Relicário, →ISBN
  2. ^ anonymous author (1622) “Bahia de todos os santos”, 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 50: “Quîrigmure [Kyrymuré]”
  3. ^ Jean de Léry (1578) chapter 20, 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 349: “Kouroumouré [Kyrymuré]”
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