pûãmyterybyrixûara

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• pûã-myterybyrixûara

Etymology

By surface analysis, pûãmytera (“middle finger”) +‎ ybyri (“next to”) +‎ -xûar (“what”, relative) +‎ -a, literally “what is next to the middle finger”.

Noun

pûãmyterybyrixûara (possessable, absolute mûãmyterybyrixûara)

1. ring 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