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Old Tupi
Etymology
From anhanga (“devil”) + ku'i (“dust”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ã.ɲã.ŋuˈʔi/
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: a‧nha‧ngu‧'i
Noun
anhangu'i (?)
- (hapax) sulfur
- Synonyms: anhangarepoti, kangûyra
References
- anonymous author (1622) “Enxofre”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 120: “Anhãgui. Anhãgarepoti. Canguîra. [Anhangu'i. Anhangarepoti. Kangûyra.]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “anhangu'i”, 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 40, column 1