tancarêra

Macanese

Alternative forms

tancarera, tancaréra, tancareira

Etymology

tancá +‎ -êra. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar.

Noun

tancarêra

female equivalent of tancarêro: boatwoman
Nhonha na jinela
Cô fula mogarim,
Sua mãe tancarera
Seu pai canarim.
Girl at the window
With a jasmine flower,
Her mother a boatwoman
Her father a Goan.

Usage notes

Appears to be more common than its masculine equivalent.

References

https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_canarim
Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tancareira”, in 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 542

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