teîú

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *teju.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní teju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈju/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: te‧îú

Noun

teîú (unpossessable)

1. tegu (any lizard in the genera Tupinambis or Salvator)

Derived terms

• teîugûasu
• teîunhana

Descendants

• Nheengatu: teyú
• → Portuguese: teiú, teju, tegu, tiú

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “teîú”, 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 470, column 2