mairiygûara
Old Tupi
Etymology
Noun
mairiygûara (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)
- (hapax legomenon) native or inhabitant of the city of Belém, capital of the captaincy of Grão-Pará, Brazil
References
- Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Morador ou natural”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 28r, column 1, line 43; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, , page 203: “mairìigoara”