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Mairi

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See also: mairi and Màiri

Old Tupi

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Etymology

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    Uncertain. If the same origin of Portuguese Mairi, from maíra (“white man”) +‎ 'y (“river”).[1]

    Proper noun

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    Mairi (Língua Geral Amazônica)

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

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Nheengatu: Mairí

    References

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    1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Mairi”, 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 584, column 2
    • Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “o lugar da cidade de grãm parà”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 57, column 2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 317: “Mairì”

    Portuguese

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    Proper noun

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    Mairi

    1. A municipality of Bahia, Brazil
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