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'aba

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Old Tupi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔaβ.[1] By surface analysis, 'a (“head”) +‎ aba (“hair”).[2]

Cognate with Awetí ʔap.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʔa.β̞a/
  • Rhymes: -aβa
  • Hyphenation: 'a‧ba

Noun

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'aba (possessable)

  1. head of hair
  2. (of animals) fur; contour feather; plumage, when it grows on the head

Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: awa

References

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  1. ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 402
  2. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'aba”, 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 5, column 2
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