kaá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kaa"

Nheengatu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈa/[1]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ka‧á

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Tupi ka'a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔa (“forest, leaf”).[2]

Noun

kaá (plural kaá-itá)

  1. woods; forest; jungle (dense collection of trees)
  2. herb; grass (plant whose stem is not woody)
  3. palm (branch or leaf of a palm tree)
  4. (loosely) any leaf
    Synonym: awa

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Tupi ka'ab.[2]

Verb

kaá

  1. (intransitive) to defecate
Conjugation
Conjugation of kaá
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative affirmative akaá rekaá ukaá yakaá pekaá ukaá
negative ti akaá ti rekaá ti ukaá ti yakaá ti pekaá ti ukaá
imperative affirmative rekaá yakaá pekaá
negative te rekaá te yakaá te pekaá

References

  1. ^ Raynice Geraldine Pereira da Silva, Aline da Cruz, Michéli de Deus Lima Schwade (2020) “Descrição e documentação fonológica das variedades do nheengatu no Amazonas”, in Revista De Letras Norte@mentos, volume 13, number 33, →DOI
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kaá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 355–356

Old Tupi

Noun

kaá (unpossessable)

  1. obsolete spelling of ka'a
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