ygarusu
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editFrom ygara (“canoe”) + -usu (“big”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editygarusu
- ship
- Peroetá ygarusu pupé opytá.
- Many Portugueses stayed inside the ships.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ygarusu”, 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 526, column 1