puraké

Old Tupi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pu.ɾaˈkɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ra‧ké

Etymology 1
poraké (sense 1)
poraké (sense 2)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *purake.[1]

Compare Paraguayan Guaraní porake.

Alternative forms

Noun

puraké (unpossessable)

  1. electric eel (Electrophorus electricus, an eel-like fish capable of generating powerful electric shocks)
    Synonym: purá
  2. chola guitarfish (Pseudobatos percellens)
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: puraké
  • → Portuguese: poraquê, poroquê, puraquê

Noun

puraké (possessable)

  1. elbow
    Synonym: endybangã
Usage notes

Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, from 1622, states that puraké was only used in the Captaincy of São Vicente, current São Paulo state. The inherited term in Northern Brazil's Nheengatu, however, shows that the word was known in a wider area.[2]

Descendants

Adjective

puraké

  1. disguised
  2. deceptive
  3. fake; false
    Synonym: ran

Noun

puraké (possessable)

  1. disguise
  2. deceit; fraud

References
  1. Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  2. Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “puraké²”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 638

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