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 (absolute mûãmyterybyrixûara) (possessable)

1. ring finger

Coordinate terms

• (fingers) pûã; pûãgûasu, pûãbe'engaba, pûãmytera, pûãmyterybyrixûara, pûãmirĩ ^{(Category: tpw:Fingers)}

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, column 2