Paraná Pitinga

Nheengatu

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Tupi Paranapitinga, from paranã + piting + -a.

    Proper noun

    Paraná Pitinga (Lower Amazon, archaic)

    1. Amazon (a river in northern South America)

    References

    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pitinga”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 621
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