'anga
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔaŋ (“shadow”).
Noun
[edit]'anga (possessable)
- shadow (dark image projected onto a surface)
- echo (reflected sound)
- shelter
- reflection (something that is reflected)
- thinking
- back (side of any object which is opposite the front)
- Synonym: akypûera
- (Late Tupi, Christianity) soul (spirit or essence of a person)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: anga
References
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'anga”, 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 37, columns 1–2