pixana

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi pixana, from Portuguese bichano. First attested in 1853.

Noun

pixana (plural pixana-itá)

1. domestic cat (Felis catus)

Related terms

• pixana-nambí
• pixana-puampé
• pixana-pú
• pixana-ruáya

 

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pixana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 625

Old Tupi

Noun

pixana (?)

1. Alternative form of bixana

References

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Gata caseira”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 22, column 1, line 38; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 179: “pixána [pixana]”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “corruptela de bichano”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 163: “PIXÁNA [Pixana]”
• Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1867) “Felis domestica”, in Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika’s zumal Brasiliens; II) (overall work in Portuguese and German), Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, page 471: “Pixána [Pixana]”