pûãbe'engaba

Old Tupi

Etymology

By surface analysis, pûã (“finger”) +‎ pobe'eng (“to point”) +‎ -ab (instrumentalizer suffix) +‎ -a, literally “pointing finger”.

Noun

pûãbe'engaba (absolute mûãbe'engaba) (possessable)

index finger

Coordinate terms

(fingers) pûã; pûãgûasu, pûãbe'engaba, pûãmytera, pûãmyterybyrixûara, pûãmirĩ ^{(Category: tpw:Fingers)}

References

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, column 2

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.