akuti
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akuti, from Proto-Tupian *akutˀi.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani akuti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akuˈti/
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: a‧ku‧ti
Noun
akuti (unpossessable)
- agouti (any rodent in the genus Dasyprocta)
Related terms
- akutimirĩ
Descendants
- Nheengatu: akutí
- → French: agouti, acouchi
- → Portuguese: cutia (with regular loss of word-initial /a/), aguti, aguchi, acouti, acuti
Further reading
- Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “akuti”, 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 27, column 1
Paraguayan Guarani
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [akuˈti]
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
akuti
Related terms
- akuti sa'yju
- akutipuru
Descendants
References
- Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “akuti”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 13, column 1