A primeira década da Ásia, de João de Barros: edição e estudo lexicográfico e etimológico

Abstract

The First Decade of Asia (1552), by João de Barros, is a historiographical chronicle that deals with the Portuguese colonization in Africa and Asia during the 15th and 16th centuries, a relevant moment for Portugal, which was the first to reach the path to India in 1498. Undoubtedly, an important achievement for the great navigations, since the rising Portuguese empire was able to expand, reaching more distant regions, such as China (1513); East Timor (1515); and Japan (1543). In addition, Brazil (1500) which will be (re)discovered due to a deviation from the route of Cabral's fleet to Asia. Thus, considering the ten books that make up this precious historical document, Asia, a diplomatic edition and a loan glossary were carried out in this dissertation, whose etymological bases were not related to Latin or Romance languages. The research, which was developed under the theoretical and methodological support of historical linguistics stricto sensu, philology and historical-variational lexicography, contributes to the establishment of a text of great importance for historical and linguistic studies, as well as for the systematic knowledge of an inventory unusual lexical language, in which elements from Arabic, Malay, Tamil, Berber, Javanese, Persian, Kimbundu, Hebrew, Hindustani, Czech and Sanskrit appear. The research serves for the continuous work of reconstituting the historical and linguistic scenario of the Portuguese language and the effects of its cultural and linguistic contacts. Addressing the current moment of publication of the original work of edge temporal borders in the end of archaic Portuguese, this dissertation also looks forward to contributing to the fortification of research related to this moment in which modern Portuguese begins to consolidate and spread by the New World.