mbegwe

Kaiwá

Karumbe ogwata mbegwe.

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní mbegue and Old Tupi mbegûé.

Noun

mbegwe

1. slowly

   Eregwata mbegwe eterei gwi ndahamo'ãi ne ndive. ― Because you walk too slowly, I won't go with you.

2. low (low volume of sound)

   Embopu mbegweve ne mbaraka. ― Play your guitar lower.

Further reading

• Graciela Chamorro (2022) “mbegwe”, in Dicionário kaiowá-português [Kaiwá–Portuguese Dictionary] (overall work in Portuguese), Belo Horizonte: Javali, →ISBN, page 361, column 1