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Nheengatu
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Old Galician-Portuguese missa Nheengatu misa-pituna
Inherited from Língua Geral Amazônica missa-pytuna (literally “Mass night”). By surface analysis, misa (“mass”) + pituna (“night”).
Noun
misa-pituna (plural misa-pituna-itá)
- (archaic) Christmas
References
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “misa-pituna”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 487