ka'atinga
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ka'a (“forest”) + ting (“white”) + -a.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ka'atinga (unpossessable)
- caatinga (sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil)
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: kaatinga
- → Paraguayan Guaraní: ka'atĩnga (learned)
- → Brazilian Portuguese: caatinga, Caatinga, catinga
- → English: caatinga
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ka'atinga”, 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 210, column 1
- Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § III (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1299: “Caatinga [Ka'atinga]”
- anonymous author (1622) “Tosada barba ser”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 133: “Caatinga [Ka'atinga]”