gagaluna

Nheengatu

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese vaga-lume or caga-lume.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˌɡa.ɡaˈlu.na]
  • Rhymes: -una
  • Hyphenation: ga‧ga‧lu‧na

Noun

gagaluna (plural gagaluna-itá)

  1. firefly
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Synonyms

  • kuisí, wamuá (archaic)

References

  • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “gagaluna”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 308
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