mongaraû

Old Tupi

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní mongaráu.

Verb

mongaraû

1. to dislocate (a limb)
   • 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 97; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Xepigmõgarao ybigra.

     [Xe pymongaraû ybyrá.]

     A stick dislocated my foot.

   • 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 97; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Ajepigmongarao.

     [Aîepymongaraû.]

     I dislocated my foot.

   • 1595 [1555], Joseph of Anchieta, chapter IX, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, page 39v:

     coromôymóngaràu.

     [Koromõ i mongaraû.]

     (It) will soon dislocate it.

2. to twist (a hand or foot, etc.)
   • 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 132; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Ajepig mõgarao

     [Aîepymongaraû.]

     I twisted my foot.

   • 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 132; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Aiepo mongarao.

     [Aîepomongaraû.]

     I twisted my hand.

Usage notes

• The infinitive (Anchieta, 27) and the gerund (Figueira, 60v) are mongaraûa. The circumstantial is also mongaraû (Anchieta, 39v). With the deverbals -sara and -saba, it becomes mongaraûsara and mongaraûsaba, respectively (Anchieta, 29v).

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mongaraû”, 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 306, column 1