kabatã

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?]. By surface analysis, kaba (“wasp”) +‎ atã (“brave”).[1]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní kavytã.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kaˈβ̞a.tã]
  • Rhymes: -ã
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ba‧tã

Noun

kabatã (unpossessable)

  1. (hapax legomenon) red paper wasp (Polistes canadensis)
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter XCI, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 220:
      Cabatan são outras abelhas que não são grandes, que fazem seu ninho no ar, dependurado por um fio, que desce da ponta de um raminho […] e n’estes ninhos armam seus favos, onde criam mel branco e bom.
      “Kabatã” are another [kind of] bee that aren't big. They make their nest in the air, suspended by a string that goes down from the tip of a little twig […] and in these nests they set their combs, where they make good white honey.]

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: kawantá, kawatã
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: cabatã

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kabatã”, 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 210, column 2
  • Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 296
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