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Old Tupi
Etymology
From pûer.
Suffix
-pûer
- forms the past tense of nouns
- Antonym: ram
- kangûera ― skeleton (literally, “former bones”)
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2005) chapter 8, in Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos [Modern method of Old Tupi: the language of Brazil's early centuries] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, São Paulo: Global Editora, →ISBN, O tempo nominal em tupi, pages 108–110
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “-pûer”, 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 426, column 1