itanema
Old Tupi
Etymology
From itá (“metal”) + nema (“stinking”), literally “stinking metal”.
Compare Guaraní itane.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [i.taˈnɛ̃.ma]
- Rhymes: -ɛ̃ma
- Hyphenation: i‧ta‧ne‧ma
Noun
itanema (?)
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itanema”, 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 193, column 2