ka'aîara

See also: Ka'aîara

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) caajara

Etymology

From ka'a (“forest”) +‎ îara (“lord”), literally, “forest lord”, or more loosely translated as “the one who rules the forest”.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka.ʔaˈja.ɾa], [ka.ʔaˈʒa.ɾa]
  • Homophone: Ka'aîara

Noun

ka'aîara (?)

  1. (hapax legomenon) mantis (any insect in the order Mantodea)

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: caajara

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “ka'aîara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 208, column 1
  • anonymous author (1622), “Louva a Ds. hum certo Bichinho [Mantis, a kind of bug]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 24: “Caajara”
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