pûãbe'engaba

Old Tupi

Etymology

By surface analysis, pûã (“finger”) +‎ pobe'eng (“to point”) +‎ -ab (instrumentalizer suffix) +‎ -a, literally “pointing finger”.

Noun

pûãbe'engaba (possessable, absolute mûãbe'engaba)

1. index finger

Coordinate terms

terms for fingers: pûãedit

• pûãgûasu
• pûãbe'engaba
• pûãmytera
• pûãmyterybyrixûara
• pûãmirĩ

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, 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 406, column 2