abatinga

Old Tupi

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese homem branco, from abá (“man”) +‎ ting (“white”) +‎ -a.

Noun

abatinga (unpossessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

  1. (dis legomenon) white man
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abá

References

  • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Branca ou branco, fallando de gente”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 8r, column 1, line 13; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 123: “abá tinga”
  • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Homem branco”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 22v, column 2, line 4; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 181: “abá tinga”
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