Kayarí

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

• Ukayarí (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arawakan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kajaˈri/, [ka.jaˈɾi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: Ka‧ya‧rí

Proper noun

Kayarí

1. Uaupés (a river in Brazil)
   • 2015, Hermes Plácido, “Pituna yumpirungá [Origin of the night]”, in Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins, editor, Leetra Indígena, volume 1, number 17, São Carlos: UFSCar, →ISSN, page 67; text written in São Gabriel da Cachoeira:

     […] yawram pa kua caiarí waraita see tapinum kuemaité […]

     For this reason, they say, the people of the Uaupés like to fart in the morning.

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: Caiari

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “Kayarí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 387