ingá
التعريفات والمعاني
== Old Tupi ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.
=== Noun ===
ingá (?)
inga (any plant in the genus Inga)
==== Related terms ====
==== Descendants ====
Nheengatu: ingá
→ Brazilian Portuguese: ingá→ English: inga
=== References ===
Claude d'Abbeville (1614), chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 226: “Inga”
Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648), Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter X (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 112: “Inga”
Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “ingá”, 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 186, column 2
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Old Tupi ingá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: in‧gá
=== Noun ===
ingá m (plural ingás)
(Brazil) inga
==== Related terms ====
==== Descendants ====
→ English: inga
=== Further reading ===
“ingá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026