pûãmyterybyrixûara

Old Tupi edit

Alternative forms edit

pûã-myterybyrixûara

Etymology edit

By surface analysis, pûãmytera (“middle finger”) +‎ ybyri (“next to”) +‎ -xûar (“what”, relative) +‎ -a, literally “what is next to the middle finger”.

Noun edit

pûãmyterybyrixûara (absolute mûãmyterybyrixûara) (possessable)

ring finger

Coordinate terms edit

(fingers) pûã; pûãgûasu, pûãbe'engaba, pûãmytera, pûãmyterybyrixûara, pûãmirĩ ^{(Category: tpw:Fingers)}

References edit

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, column 2