Nheengatu edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kaˈa/[1]
    • (Alto Rio Negro) IPA(key): [kaˈʔa]
    • (Médio Amazonas) IPA(key): [kaˈa]
    • (Solimões) IPA(key): [kaˈa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ka‧á

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Tupi ka'a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔa (forest, leaf).[2]

Noun edit

kaá

  1. woods; forest; jungle (dense collection of trees)
  2. herb; grass (plant whose stem is not woody)
  3. palm (branch or leaf of a palm tree)
  4. (broadly) any leaf
    Synonym: awa

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Old Tupi ka'ab.[2]

Verb edit

kaá

  1. (intransitive) to defecate

References edit

  1. ^ 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, →DOI
  2. 2.0 2.1 Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021), “kaá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português (Thesis, in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 355–356

Old Tupi edit

Noun edit

kaá (unpossessable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ka'a