kastanha
Nheengatu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese castanha, from Old Galician-Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kắstănă). Displaced nhã and tukarí.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kastanha (plural kastanha-itá)
- brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa)
- Synonyms: nhã, tukarí, tukarí-iwa
- the nut of this tree
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kastanha”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , pages 379–380
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- Nheengatu terms derived from Brazilian Portuguese
- Nheengatu terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Nheengatu terms borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese
- Nheengatu terms derived from Latin
- Nheengatu terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Nheengatu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Nheengatu/aɲa
- Rhymes:Nheengatu/aɲa/3 syllables
- Nheengatu lemmas
- Nheengatu nouns
- yrl:Ericales order plants
- yrl:Nuts