anhanga ratá
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Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “devil's fire”. Coined by Jesuits in the 16th century.[1]
Noun
[edit]- (Christianity, Late Tupi) hell
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Anhanga”, 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 39, column 2