pixana

== Nheengatu == === Etymology === Inherited from Língua Geral Amazônica pixana, from Portuguese bichano. First attested in 1853. === Noun === pixana (plural pixana-itá) domestic cat (Felis catus) ==== Related terms ==== === References === Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (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 === Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Gata caseira”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 22, column 1, line 38; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 179: “pixána [pixana]” José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “corruptela de bichano”, 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, São Paulo, July 1936, page 163: “PIXÁNA [Pixana]” Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1867), “Felis domestica”, in “Diccionario de Verbos: portuguez tupi-austral e alemâo”, in Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika’s zumal Brasiliens; II) (overall work in Portuguese and German), Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, page 471, column Pixána: “Pixana”