gûyrybo

Old Tupi

Etymology

From gûyra (“bottom, lower part, bottom part”) +‎ -y- (epenthetic linking vowel) +‎ -bo (“in, by”, diffuse locative postposition). Cognate with Guaraní guýbo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwɨ.ɾɨ.βɔ]
• Rhymes: -ɨɾɨβɔ
• Hyphenation: gûy‧ry‧bo

Postposition

gûyrybo

1. below (in a diffuse sense)

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûyrybo”, 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 141, column 2