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Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi papasaba.[1]
Numeral
papasawa
- (archaic) hundred
- (archaic) one hundred
Noun
papasawa (plural papasawa-itá)
- (archaic) count; counting
- Synonym: paparisawa
1926, Antônio Brandão de Amorim, Lendas em nheengatu e em português (overall work in Portuguese), Manaus: Fundo Editorial; Associação Comercial do Amazonas, published 1987, page 222:Ara mukũi pú papasawa riré, Tupana ururi aé yepé itaúka pupé kití […]- After the count of ten days, Tupana took her to a cave
- (archaic) hundred (100 units of something)
References
- ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “papasawa”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 578