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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ajˈka/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: aî‧ká
Noun
aîká (unpossessable)
- dolphin (carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea)
- Synonym: pukusĩ
References
- anonymous author (1622) “Boto, certo peixe”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 58: “Aicâ. Pucuçĩ. [Aîká. Pukusĩ.]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aîká”, 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 17, column 1