moretĩ

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

mboretĩ, mberiti, mborutĩ, meriti, morutĩ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *muriti.^[1]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní mburiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɔ.ɾɛˈtĩ/
Rhymes: -ĩ
Hyphenation: mo‧re‧tĩ

Noun

moretĩ (unpossessable)

moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa)
Synonym: meriti'yba
the fruit of the moriche palm

Descendants

Nheengatu: mirití
→ Portuguese: buriti, muruti, muriti, buruti, miriti, murutim (obsolete)

References

^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC

Further reading

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “moretĩ”, 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 312, column 1

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