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nhe'engatu

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Old Tupi

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Etymology

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    From nhe'eng (to speak) +‎ katu (well).

    Verb

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    nhe'engatu (first-person singular active indicative anhe'engatu, first-person singular negative active indicative n'anhe'engatuî, noun nhe'engatu) (intransitive)

    1. (Língua Geral Amazônica) to know a language[1]

    Conjugation

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    Descendants

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    References

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    1. ^ Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Lingoa ſaber”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 25v, column 1, line 24; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 193:anheengatú. [] onheéngatu.