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Mbyá Guaraní
Noun
apekũ
- tongue
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pɛˈkũ/
- Rhymes: -ũ
- Hyphenation: a‧pe‧kũ
Etymology 1
Noun
apekũ (possessable)
- tongue (part of the body)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
apekũ (unpossessable)
- saltwater swamp
- transition area between mangal and dry land
Descendants
Further reading
- Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “apekũ”, 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 46, column 1