pokõi

Paraguayan Guarani

Paraguayan Guarani numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: pokõi     Ordinal: pokõiha

Etymology

Blend of po (“hand”) +‎ mokõi (“two”), literally “hand two”. Coinage usually attributed to Reinaldo Decoud Larrosa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈkõi/
• Rhymes: -õi

Adjective

pokõi

1. (cardinal number, neologism) seven

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Derived terms

• arapokõi
• jasypokõi
• papokõi
• pokõiha
• pokõipa
• pokõisa

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “pokõi”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 89, column 1

Further reading

• Estigarribia, Bruno (2020), “Nominals” (chapter 3), in A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani (overall work in English), London: UCL Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 99–100