meriti'yba
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m.ɛ.ɾi.tiˈʔɨ.βa/, [m.ɛ.ɾi.tiˈʔɨ.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -ɨβa
- Hyphenation: me‧ri‧ti‧'y‧ba
Noun
meriti'yba (unpossessable)
- moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa)
- Synonym: moretĩ
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “meriti'yba”, 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 278, column 1