Portuguese spellingTuâna
Definitions
- 1Little children; boys; children.
PT Filhinhos; meninos; crianças.·FR Petits enfants ; garçonnets ; enfants.
Seen in the folk-tales
- Ku axala, manii â uaia ku ixi iengi ni tuana tuê tuiadi.Meanwhile, their mother had gone to another country with her two little children.VIII · told by Musoki, a young Mu-suku man
- Uatuamekesa o tuana tuê tuiadi; o ndenge u mu ambata ku ema.She sent her two older children ahead; the baby she carried on her back.VI · told by Jelemía dia Sabatelu.
- 2
- 3--tud uisu, very young babies, of nursing age.
PT --tud uisu, criancinhas de tenra idade, de colo.·FR --tud uisu, tout petits enfants en bas âge, au berceau.