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Old Tupi
Etymology
From paraná (“river”) + piting (“freckly”) + -a.
Proper noun
Paranapitinga (Língua Geral Amazônica)
- Amazon (a river in northern South America)
- Synonym: Paranaûasu
Descendants
References
- João de Arronches (1739) “RIO DAS ALMAZONAS”, 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 278: “paranám pitinga”
- Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “o rio das Amazonas”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 53, column 2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 301: “Paranà pytinga”
- Frei Onofre (1795) “Rio, das Amazonas”, in (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editorSão Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado, 1934, page 114, column 2: “Parana pitynga”