marigûi

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɾiˈɣʷi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧gûi

Noun

marigûi (unpossessable)

1. biting midge (small insect in the family Ceratopogonidae)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: maruim

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “marigûi”, 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 265, column 1