Mairí

Nheengatu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Tupi maíra?

Proto-Tupian *ʔɨ

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨ

Old Tupi 'y?

Old Tupi Mairi

Nheengatu Mairí

Inherited from Old Tupi Mairi.

Proper noun

Mairí (Lower Amazon, archaic)

1. Belém (a city, the state capital of Pará, Brazil)

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “mairí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 436