ancusa

Macanese

Alternative forms
  • ancuza (common variant)

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese algũa cousa (“something, anything”), likely via an earlier form of Portuguese alguma coisa, possibly algũa cousa reduced via [alguŋa kuza] → [a uŋa kuza] → [aŋkuza].[1] Semantically, displaced cuza as a noun. Compare Galician algunha cousa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aŋˈkuza/, /aŋˈkuzɐ/

Noun

ancusa

  1. thing (a physical object, entity or situation)
    estunga ancusa ― this (literally, “this thing”)
    tudo ancusa ― everything
    Sentâ na casa, renâ ancuza triste
    To sit at home, thinking about sad things

Derived terms

Pronoun

ancusa

  1. (indefinite) something
    seléa ancusa ― something like this[2]

References
  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 426
  2. https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
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