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Guaraní
Noun
pysã
- finger or toe
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨt͡ʃã, from Proto-Tupian *pɨt͡ʃˀã.[1]
Cognate with Guaraní pysã.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɨˈsã/
- Rhymes: -ã
- Hyphenation: py‧sã
Noun
pysã (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mysã)
- toe
Derived terms
References
- ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
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) “pysã”, 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 418, column 1