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Old Tupi
Etymology
Old Galician-Portuguese jantar Old Tupi îandara
Adapted borrowing of Brazilian Portuguese jantar + -a. The term was borrowed in the 18th century, before jantar got the modern sense of “evening meal”.
Noun
îandara (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)
- lunch; dinner (midday meal)
- (by extension) midday
- Synonyms: 'araybysokeme, asaîé
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References
- João de Arronches (1739) “JANTAR”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 199: “janára”
- annonymous (c. 1757) “Meio dia”, in (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 87: “jantara”