akuti

Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi akuti.

Noun

akuti

1. agouti

Related terms

• akuti sa'yju
• akutipuru

 

Descendants

• → Spanish: agutí (with regular voicing of intervocalic /k/)
  • → Catalan: agutí
  • → Finnish: aguti

Old Tupi

akuti

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní akuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kuˈti/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: a‧ku‧ti

Noun

akuti (unpossessable)

1. agouti

Related terms

• akutimirĩ

Descendants

• Nheengatu: akutí
• → French: agouti, acouchi
  • →? Dutch: agoeti
    • Afrikaans: agoeti
    • → Sranan Tongo: aguti
  • → English: agouti, acouchi, acouchy
  • → Italian: aguti
  • →? Russian: агути (aguti)
• → Portuguese: cutia (with regular loss of word-initial /a/), aguti, aguchi, acouti, acuti

Further reading

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “akuti”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 27, column 1