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Nheengatu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arawakan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kajaˈri/,
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: Ka‧ya‧rí
Proper noun
Kayarí
- Uaupés (a river in Brazil)
2015, Hermes Plácido, “Pituna yumpirungá [Origin of the night]”, in Leetra Indígena, volume 1, number 17, São Carlos: UFSCar, →ISSN, page 67; text written in São Gabriel da Cachoeira:[…] yawram pa kua caiarí waraita see tapinum kuemaité […]- For this reason, they say, the people of the Uaupés like to fart in the morning.
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: Caiari
References
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “Kayarí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 387