bixana

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• pixana

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese bichano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [β̞iˈʃã.na]
• Rhymes: -ãna
• Hyphenation: bi‧xa‧na

Noun

bixana (female equivalent bixanakunhã) (?)

1. (LGA) domestic cat (Felis catus)

   Synonyms: marakaîá, marakaîamimbaba

Coordinate terms

• (felids) îagûara (îagûarakangusu, îagûareté, *îagûaruna, îagûarusu), marakaîá (bixana, *îagûatyryka, marakaîaeté, marakaîagûasu, marakaîamimbaba, marakaîamirĩ), sûasuarana (îagûapytangusu)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pixana

References

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Gata caseira”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica (in Portuguese), Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 179, line 39: “pixána [pixana]”
• annonymous (1757) “Gato”, in [Vocabulario] (in Old Tupi); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 73: “bixana”
• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (a. 1867) Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (in Old Tupi); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3 (in Portuguese), São Paulo, 1936 July, page 163: “PIXÁNA [Pixana]”
• Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1867) Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika's zumal Brasiliens; II) (overall work in Portuguese, German, and Old Tupi), Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, page 471: “Pixána [Pixana]”