akaîá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /akaˈja/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧ka‧îá

Etymology 1

    Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akaja.

    Alternative forms

    • kaîá
    Historical spellings 
    d'Abbeville (1614) acaia
    Marcgrave (1648) acaia

    Noun

    akaîá (unpossessable)

    1. hog plum (Spondias mombin)[1][2]
      Synonym: tapura'ybá
    Descendants
    • Nheengatu: kayá
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: cajá, acajá

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    akaîá (possessable)

    1. vagina; vulva[3]
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kûara

    References

    1. ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 223: “Acaia”
    2. ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter XVI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 129: “Acaia”
    3. ^ Pero de Castilho (1613) “Matrix in fœminis”, in Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 27, line 4: “Acaiâ”
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