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Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi pixana, from Portuguese bichano. First attested in 1853.
Noun
pixana (plural pixana-itá)
- domestic cat (Felis catus)
References
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pixana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 625
Old Tupi
Noun
pixana (?)
- Alternative form of bixana
References
- Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Gata caseira”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica (in Portuguese), Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 179, column 1, line 39: “pixána [pixana]”
- José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “PIXÁNA”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3 (in Portuguese), São Paulo, 1936 July, page 163: “PIXÁNA [Pixana]”
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1867) Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika's zumal Brasiliens; II) (overall work in Portuguese and German), Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, page 471: “Pixána [Pixana]”