kabatã
Appearance
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?]. By surface analysis, kaba (“wasp”) + atã (“brave”).[1]
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní kavytã.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kabatã (unpossessable)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kabatã”, 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 2
- Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXIX, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 240: “Cabatan [Kabatã]”
- 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, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 296