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misa-pituna

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Nheengatu

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
    Proto-Indo-European *meytH-der.
    Proto-Italic *meitō
    Latin mittō
    Proto-Indo-European *-tis
    Proto-Italic *-tjō
    Latin -tiō
    Latin missiō
    Ecclesiastical Latin missalbor.
    Old Galician-Portuguese missa
    Portuguese missabor.
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtunder.
    Old Tupi putuna
    Old Tupi missa-pytuna
    Nheengatu misa-pituna

    Inherited from Old Tupi missa-pytuna (literally “Mass night”).

    Noun

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    misa-pituna (plural misa-pituna-itá)

    1. (archaic, hapax) Christmas

    References

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    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “misa-pituna”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 487
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