ka'atinga
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
| Historical spellings | |
|---|---|
| VLB (1622) | caatinga |
Etymology
From ka'a (“forest”) + ting (“white”) + -a.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ka.ʔaˈtĩ.ŋa]
- Rhymes: -ĩŋa
- Hyphenation: ka‧'a‧ti‧nga
Noun
ka'atinga (unpossessable)
- caatinga (sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil)
- [p. 1583, Fernão Cardim, “Da diversidade de nações e linguas”, in Do principio e origem dos indios (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 200:
- Alem destes, para o sertão e campos de Caátinga vivem muitas nações Tapuyas […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
Descendants
- Nheengatu: kaatinga
- → Paraguayan Guarani: ka'atĩnga (learned)
- → Portuguese: caatinga, Caatinga, catinga
- → English: caatinga
References
- ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “ka'atinga”, 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 210, column 1
- anonymous author (1622), “Rasa ser assi como o Caatinga”, 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 97: “Caatinga [Ka'atinga]”
- anonymous author (1622), “Tosada barba ser”, 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 133: “Caatinga [Ka'atinga]”