akaka'i

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akakaˈʔi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: a‧ka‧ka‧'i

Noun

akaka'i (unpossessable)

1. (hapax) howler monkey. Further details are uncertain.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: wakarí, akarí (obsolete)
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: uacari
    • → English: uakari

References

• Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Ackakey”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “akaka'i”, 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 22, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 253