pirasema

== Old Tupi == === Etymology === From pirá (“fish”) +‎ sema (“exit”). === Noun === pirasema (?) (hapax legomenon) the period of the year when fish migrate upriver to reproduce ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: pirasema → Brazilian Portuguese: piracema === References === Joseph of Anchieta (1560), [Ao Padre Geral, de São Vicente] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as chapter X, in Júlio Afrânio Peixoto, compiler, Cartas, informações, fragmentos historicos e sermões [Letters, information, historical fragments and sermons] (Cartas jesuiticas; 3), Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1933, page 106: “pirácema” Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “pirasema”, 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 387, column 1