itaîunema
Old Tupi
Etymology
From itaîuba (“gold”) + nema (“stinking”), literally “stinking gold”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i.ta.juˈnɛ̃.ma], [i.ta.ʒuˈnɛ̃.ma]
- Rhymes: -ɛ̃ma
- Hyphenation: i‧ta‧îu‧ne‧ma
Noun
itaîunema (?)
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itaîunema”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 192, column 2