popytera
Old Tupi
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Alternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *popɨter. By surface analysis, pó (“hand”) + pytera (“middle”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpopytera (absolute mopytera) (possessable)
- palm of the hand
Descendants
edit- Nheengatu: pú-pitera
References
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “popytera”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 395, column 1