emirekoeté

From emirekó (“wife”) +‎ eté (“true, legitimate, authentic, genuine”), literally “legitimate wife, true wife”.

• IPA^(key): [ɛ̃.mi.ɾɛ.kɔ.ɛ.ˈtɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: e‧mi‧re‧kó‧e‧té

emirekoeté (IIa class pluriform, absolute temirekoeté, R1 remirekoeté, R2 semirekoeté) (possessable)

1. (Late Tupi) legitimate wife, with whom someone got married in the church
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter V, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica […], Livro Setimo da ordem de baptizar, [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 134:

     Clara, y xè Gonçalo orogoàr xeremirecò etéramo Sancta Madre Igreja de Roma tecômonhangába rupi.

     [Clara, ixé Gonçalo orogûar xe remirekoetéramo Santa Madre Igreja de Roma tekomonhangaba rupi.]

     Clara, I Gonçalo take you as my legitimate wife, according to the regulations of the Holy Mother Church of Rome.

2. the most esteemed or beloved woman, often the last one taken

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “emirekó”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 100, column 2