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Língua Geral Amazônica Arronches, João de (1739), Caderno da Lingua; republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 202.
Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Tempo […] da chuva”, in [Dicionário de Trier], Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 40, column 1, line 15; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 251.
anonymous author (c. 1757), [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico]; republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 78 |
The Amazonia rainy season occurs at the end of the year and the start of the following year, being commonly associated with winter because of the lower temperatures, despite the lack of four well-defined seasons in the region. (Zilmar Lima da Silva (2022), “Verão e inverno amazônico”: perspectiva meteorológica e a percepção dos moradores do município de Manaus/AM, Manaus: UFAM, pages 69–77 https://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/8747 )