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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *atatiŋ.[1][2][3] By surface analysis, atá (“fire”) + ting (“white”) + -a.[4]
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní ataxĩ and Paraguayan Guaraní tatatĩ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.taˈtĩ.ŋa/
- Rhymes: -ĩŋa
- Hyphenation: a‧ta‧ti‧nga
Noun
atatinga (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tatatinga, R1 ratatinga, R2 satatinga)
- smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
- ^ Charles Owen Schleicher (1998) Comparative and internal reconstruction of the Tupi-Guarani language family, Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison
- ^ Miriam Lemle (1971) “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29), volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “atatinga”, 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 68, column 2