kaá
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kaa"
Nheengatu edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Tupi ka'a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔa (“forest, leaf”).[2]
Noun edit
kaá
- woods; forest; jungle (dense collection of trees)
- herb; grass (plant whose stem is not woody)
- palm (branch or leaf of a palm tree)
- (broadly) any leaf
- Synonym: awa
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old Tupi ka'ab.[2]
Verb edit
kaá
- (intransitive) to defecate
References edit
- ^ Raynice Geraldine Pereira da Silva; Aline da Cruz; Michéli de Deus Lima Schwade (2020), “Descrição e documentação fonológica das variedades do nheengatu no Amazonas”, in Revista De Letras Norte@mentos, volume 13, issue 33,
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021), “kaá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português (Thesis, in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, page 355–356 ,
Old Tupi edit
Noun edit
kaá (unpossessable)