mairiygûara

Old Tupi

Etymology

From Mairi +‎ -ygûar +‎ -a.

Noun

mairiygûara (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

  1. (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, →DOI, page 203:mairìigoara