Isana

Nheengatu

Proper noun

Isana

1. Içana (a tributary of the Rio Negro, Brazil)
   • a. 1926, “Mira Baré [Baré People]” (chapter III), in Antonio Brandão de Amorim, editor, compiled by Maximiano José Roberto, Lendas em Nheêngatú e em Portuguez (overall work in Portuguese), Manaus; republished as Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico Brasileiro, volume 154, number 100, Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1928, page 149, line 1:

     Iuaka iypyrungápe, paá, oiukuau Isána paranáme iepé kurumiuasu irumo iepé kunhãmuku, mukũe ué puranga.

     In the world's beginning, they say, a boy and a girl appeared in the Içana River; both were very beautiful.

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “Isana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 338