mairi

See also: Mairi and Màiri

Extremaduran

Etymology

From Latin māter.

Noun

mairi f (plural mairis)

1. mother (female parent)

See also

• pairi

Japanese

Romanization

mairi

1. Rōmaji transcription of まいり

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• mairy, mauri, mayri

Etymology

From Mairi (“Belém”).

Noun

mairi (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. city; town

   Synonyms: taba, tabeté, tabusu

Descendants

• Nheengatu: mairí

References

• João de Arronches (1739) “CIDADE”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 144: “mauri”
• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cidade”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 10r, column 2, line 2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 131: “mairí”
• anonymous author (18th century) “Cidade”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 36v: “Mairŷ”