Paranapitinga

Old Tupi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paranã

Old Tupi paranã

Old Tupi paraná

Old Tupi piting

Proto-Tupian *-ap

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?

Old Tupi -a

Old Tupi Paranapitinga

From paraná (“river”) +‎ piting (“freckly”) +‎ -a.

Proper noun

Paranapitinga (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. Amazon (a river in northern South America)

   Synonym: Paranaûasu

Descendants

• Nheengatu: Paraná Pitinga

References

• João de Arronches (1739) “RIO DAS ALMAZONAS”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 278: “paranám pitinga”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “o rio das Amazonas”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 53, column 2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 301: “Paranà pytinga”
• Frei Onofre (1795) “Rio, das Amazonas”, in [Diccionario Portuguez-Brasiliano e Brasiliano-Portuguez] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor‎^[1]São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado, 1934, page 114, column 2: “Parana pitynga”