pûãmyterybyrixûara
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Etymology
By surface analysis, pûãmytera (“middle finger”) + ybyri (“next to”) + -xûar (“what”, relative) + -a, literally “what is next to the middle finger”.
Noun
pûãmyterybyrixûara (possessable, absolute mûãmyterybyrixûara)
Coordinate terms
terms for fingers: pûãedit
- pûãgûasu
- pûãbe'engaba
- pûãmytera
- pûãmyterybyrixûara
- pûãmirĩ
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, 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 406, column 2