ka'atinga

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Old Tupi

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Etymology

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    From ka'a (“forest”) +‎ ting (“white”) +‎ -a.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [ka.ʔaˈtĩ.ŋa]
    • Rhymes: -ĩŋa
    • Hyphenation: ka‧'a‧ti‧nga

    Noun

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    ka'atinga (unpossessable)

    1. caatinga (sparse, thorny wooded area of northeastern Brazil)

    Descendants

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    • Nheengatu: kaatinga
    • → Paraguayan Guaraní: ka'atĩnga (learned)
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: caatinga, Caatinga, catinga

    References

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    1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ka'atinga”, 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 210, column 1
    • Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § III (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1299: “Caatinga [Ka'atinga]”
    • anonymous author (1622) “Tosada barba ser”, 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 133: “Caatinga [Ka'atinga]”
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