kaá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kaa"

Nheengatu

Pronunciation
  • 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

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

Noun

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

Inherited from Old Tupi ka'ab.[2]

Verb

kaá

  1. (intransitive) to defecate

References
  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, number 33, →DOI
  2. Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “kaá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 355–356

Old Tupi

Noun

kaá (unpossessable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ka'a
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