kurumĩ

Inherited from Língua Geral Amazônica kurumĩ, from Old Tupi kunumĩ, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kunumĩ.

• IPA^(key): /ku.ruˈmĩ/, [ku.ɾũˈmĩ]
• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: ku‧ru‧mĩ

kurumĩ (plural kurumĩ-itá)

1. boy (male child)

   Synonyms: apigawa-mirĩ, kuru

• → Brazilian Portuguese: curumim, colomi, colomim, columim, culumi, culumim, curumi

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kurumĩ”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 412

From kunumĩ, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kunumĩ.

• IPA^(key): [ku.ɾũˈmĩ]
• Rhymes: -ĩ
• Hyphenation: ku‧ru‧mĩ

kurumĩ (unpossessable)

1. Língua Geral Amazônica form of kunumĩ

• Nheengatu: kurumĩ
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: curumim, colomi, colomim, columim, culumi, culumim, curumi

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Rapaz”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 35v, column 1, line 43; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 233: “curumi [kurumĩ]”