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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akakaˈʔi/
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: a‧ka‧ka‧'i
Noun
akaka'i (unpossessable)
- (hapax) howler monkey. Further details are uncertain.
Descendants
References
- Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Ackakey”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “akaka'i”, 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 22, column 2
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 253