-pûer

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • -mbûer (after a nasal phoneme)
  • -gûer, -ûer (with paroxitones)
  • -er (after R or N)

Etymology

From pûer.

Suffix

-pûer

  1. forms the past tense of nouns
    Antonym: ram
    kangûera ― skeleton (literally, “former bones”)

References

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