marakatĩ

Inherited from Língua Geral Amazônica marakatĩ, from Portuguese bragantim. A folk etymology present in various historical sources says it is a compound of maraká (“maraca”) +‎ tĩ (“nose”), because of an adornment on the prow of these boats,^[1] but the Língua Geral etymon disproves this.

• IPA^(key): /marakaˈtĩ/, (Rio Negro) [ma.ɾa.kaˈt͡ʃĩ]
• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ka‧tĩ

marakatĩ (plural marakatĩ-itá) (nautical, archaic)

1. ship

   Synonym: navio

2. warship

• → Brazilian Portuguese: maracatim

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “marakatĩ”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 454

Borrowed from Portuguese bragantim.

marakatĩ (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. (nautical) brigantine

• Nheengatu: marakatĩ
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: maracatim

• João de Arronches (1739) “NAVIO”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 228: “maracantim açú”
• Frei Onofre (1751) “Bargantim”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 19, column 2: “Maracatîm”
• anonymous author (18th century) “Bergantim”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 36v: “Maracatim”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Navio [ship]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 28v, column 1, line 32; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 205: “bergantimuçú”