ungu'a

• angu'a, umbu'a
• indu'a (Língua Geral Amazônica and Língua Geral Paulista)
• unguá, ungûá (both misspellings)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨŋuʔa.

Cognate with Classical Guarani anguá, Guajajára ygu'a, Kaiwá, Mbya Guarani, and Paraguayan Guarani angu'a, Kamayurá ynu'ã, Tenharim yngu'a, Urubú-Kaapor ungu'a, and Wayampi enu'a.

• IPA^(key): /uŋuʔa/, [ũᵑɡuˈʔa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: u‧ngu‧'a

ungu'a (possessable)

1. mortar; pestle

   Synonyms: indu'amirĩ (Língua Geral Amazônica), itaungu'a, ybyraindu'a (Língua Geral Amazônica)

   Coordinate term: ybysokaba

• Nheengatu: induá

• Joseph of Anchieta (1555), chapter 2, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, published 1595, page 4v: “vnguâ”
• Claude d'Abbeville (1614), chapter 50, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 305v: “Ongouä”
• anonymous author (1622), “Gral”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 150: “Vunguâ”
• anonymous author (1622), “Pilão”, 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 77: “Ungoa”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648), Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book 2, chapter 6 (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 67: “Anqua”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648), Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book 2, chapter 6 (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 67: “Vmbuâ”
• Arronches, João de (1739), “PILAM”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 253: “induá”
• Frei Onofre (1751), “PILAÕ”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 62, column 1: “Indoâ”
• Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Pilãm”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 32v, column 1, line 22; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 221: “induá”
• anonymous author (18th century), “Induá”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 31v: “Pilaõ”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “pilão”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, July 1936, page 146: “INDOA’”

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “unguá”, 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 498, column 2