kûandu

Old Tupi

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní kuãndu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʷãˈⁿdu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: kûa‧ndu

Noun

kûandu (unpossessable)

1. coendou (Coendou prehensilis)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: cuandu, coandu, coendu, quandu
• → New Latin: coendou
  • → English: coendou, coendoo (obsolete)

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kûandu”, 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 235, column 2