apekũ

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

apekũ

1. tongue

Possessed forms

    Possessed forms of apekũ

singular			plural
1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person inclusive	1st person exclusive	2nd person	3rd person
xeapekũ	neapekũ	inhapekũ	nhaneapekũ	oreapekũ	peneapekũ	inhapekũ

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛˈkũ/
• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: a‧pe‧kũ

Etymology 1

Noun

apekũ (possessable)

1. tongue (part of the body)

Derived terms

• apekũgûyra

Etymology 2

Noun

apekũ (unpossessable)

1. saltwater swamp
2. transition area between mangal and dry land

Descendants

• → Portuguese: apecum

Further reading

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[1] (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