etamusu
Old Tupi
Etymology
From etama (“land”) + -usu (augmentative suffix), literally “big land”.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: e‧ta‧mu‧su
Noun
etamusu (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tetamusu, R1 retamusu, R2 setamusu) (Língua Geral Paulista)
References
- anonymous author (18th century) “Cidade”, in Língua geral dos índios das Américas [General language of the Indians of the Americas][1] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), page 6, line 345: “Tetam musû”