ararakanga

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
Marcgrave (1648) araracanga

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ararakaŋ. By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) +‎ akanga (“head”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [a.ɾa.ɾaˈkã.ŋa]
  • Rhymes: -ãŋa
  • Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra‧ka‧nga

Noun

ararakanga (unpossessable)

  1. (hapax legomenon) red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus)
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter XI (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 206:
      Araracanga Braſilienſibus, Pſittacus maximus […] Totum caput, collum, pectus, ventor, crura ſuperiora & cauda inferius, ut & initium alarum ſuperius elegantibus rubris pennis veſtiuntur, per medietatem autem alae tectae ſunt viridibus, extrema autem medietas alarum uſque ad finem coeruleis ornatur.
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Descendants

  • Nheengatu: ararakanga
  • → New Latin: aracanga (learned)
  • → Portuguese: araracanga

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ararakanga”, 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 59, column 2
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