anhanga ratá
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Etymology
Literally, “devil's fire”. Coined by Jesuits in the 16th century.[1]
Noun
anhanga ratá (unpossessable)
- (Christianity, Late Tupi) hell
- Synonym: Anhanga retama
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Anhanga”, 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 39, column 2