piaga.
synonym of pajé (“a shaman of indigenous peoples of Brazil”)
Meaning & usage
synonym of pajé (“a shaman of indigenous peoples of Brazil”)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paje Old Tupi paîéder. Portuguese piaga Apparently deliberately coined by Brazilian Indianist poet Gonçalves Dias, who preferred this term over pajé in the 1846 work Primeiros Cantos, where it is first attested. A footnote in this work connects the form piaga additionally to the forms piagè, piaches, and piayes. As such, likely ultimately derived from Old Tupi paîé (“shaman”), potentially through a Cariban borrowing. Perhaps the result of a typographical error of piagé (compare the obsolete spelling pagé), according to Batista Caetano Nogueira. In any case, a doublet of pajé.
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