tawá

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi tagûá (“yellow earth”). Displaced Old Tupi's proper words for yellow îub / îuba, which are still present in some inherited compounds in the forms yú and yúa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈwa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧wá

Adjective

tawá

1. yellow

   Synonym: itawá

Noun

tawá (uncountable)

1. yellow
2. (archaic) yellow earth

Derived terms

• abiú-tawá
• akayú-tawá
• arara-tawá
• ayuwá-tawá
• ipekú-tawá
• itaíwa-tawá
• itá-tawá
• kubiú-tawá
• mandí-tawá
• mangará-tawá
• mirá-tawá
• mutawá
• paka-maniiwa-tawá
• pupunha-tawá
• tukunaré-tawá
• upiá-tawá
• wirá-tawá

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “tawá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 743