-pûer

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• -mbûer (after a nasal phoneme)
• -gûer, -ûer (with paroxitones)
• -er (after R or N)

Etymology

From pûer.

Suffix

-pûer

1. forms the past tense of nouns

   Antonym: ram

   kangûera ― skeleton (literally, “former bones”)

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2005) chapter 8, in Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos [Modern method of Old Tupi: the language of Brazil's early centuries]‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, São Paulo: Global Editora, →ISBN, O tempo nominal em tupi, pages 108–110
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “-pûer”, 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 426, column 1