kwekatú

Nheengatu

Nheengatu phrasebook
This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi eîkobekatu (literally “be well”).

Interjection

kwekatú

  1. thank you
    Kwekatú reté!
    Thank you very much!

References

  • Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “kwekatú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 426–427
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.