kakauí

Nheengatu

Etymology

From kakáu (“cacao”) +‎ -í (diminutive suffix).

Noun

kakauí (plural kakauí-itá)

  1. (archaic) tree of the species Theobroma speciosum

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: cacauí

References

  • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kakauí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 362
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