mba'apo

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

By surface analysis, mba'e (“thing”) +‎ japo (“to make”), literally “to make things”.

Cognate with Mbya Guarani mba'eapo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʔapo/, [ᵐbaʔaˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: mba‧'a‧po

Verb

mba'apo

1. to work

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “mba'apo”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 54, column 2