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Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi saûîá or sagûiá.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: sa‧wi‧yá
Noun
sawiyá (plural sawiyá-itá)
- guinea pig
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References
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “sawiyá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 687