ka'aîara
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See also: Ka'aîara
Old Tupi
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Etymology
[edit]From ka'a (“forest”) + îara (“lord”), literally, “forest lord”, or more loosely translated as “the one who rules the forest”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ka'aîara
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: caajara
References
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ka'aîara”, 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 208, column 1
- Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts][1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José