meriti'yba

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m.ɛ.ɾi.tiˈʔɨ.βa/, [m.ɛ.ɾi.tiˈʔɨ.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -ɨβa
• Hyphenation: me‧ri‧ti‧'y‧ba

Noun

meriti'yba (unpossessable)

1. moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa)

   Synonym: moretĩ

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “meriti'yba”, 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 278, column 1