aîurueté

Old Tupi

Etymology

From aîuru (“amazon parrot”) +‎ eté (“true”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ju.ɾu.ɛˈtɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: a‧îu‧ru‧e‧té

Noun

aîurueté (unpossessable)

1. turquoise-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva)

Descendants

• Brazilian Portuguese: → ajuruetê, → papagaio-verdadeiro (calque)

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aîurueté”, 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 20, column 1