pûãbe'engaba
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, pûã (“finger”) + pobe'eng (“to point”) + -ab (instrumentalizer suffix) + -a, literally “pointing finger”.
Noun
[edit]pûãbe'engaba (absolute mûãbe'engaba) (possessable)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (fingers) pûã; pûãgûasu, pûãbe'engaba, pûãmytera, pûãmyterybyrixûara, pûãmirĩ (Category: tpw:Fingers)
References
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, column 2