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)

    1. agouti (any rodent in the genus Dasyprocta)
    • akutimirĩ

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: akutí
    • French: agouti, acouchi
    • Portuguese: cutia (with regular loss of word-initial /a/), aguti, aguchi, acouti, acuti

    Further reading

    Paraguayan Guarani

    Etymology

    Cognate with Old Tupi akuti.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [akuˈti]
    • Rhymes: -i

    Noun

    akuti

    1. agouti
    • akuti sa'yju
    • akutipuru

    Descendants

    • Spanish: agutí (with regular voicing of intervocalic /k/)

    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