akuti

Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi akuti.

Noun

akuti

1. agouti

Related terms

• akuti sa'yju
• akutipuru

Descendants

• → Spanish: agutí (with regular voicing of intervocalic /k/)
  • → Catalan: agutí
  • → Finnish: aguti

Old Tupi

akuti

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akuti, from Proto-Tupian *akutˀi.

Cognate with Guaraní akuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akuˈti/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: a‧ku‧ti

Noun

akuti (unpossessable)

1. agouti (any rodent in the genus Dasyprocta)

Related terms

• akutimirĩ

Descendants

• Nheengatu: akutí
• → French: agouti, acouchi
  • →? Dutch: agoeti
    • Afrikaans: agoeti
    • → Sranan Tongo: aguti
  • → English: agouti, acouchi, acouchy
  • → Italian: aguti
  • →? Russian: агути (aguti)
• → Portuguese: cutia (with regular loss of word-initial /a/), aguti, aguchi, acouti, acuti

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “akuti”, 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 27, column 1