mba'apo

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

By surface analysis, mba'e (“thing”) +‎ japo (“to make”), literally “to make things”.

Cognate with Mbya Guarani mba'eapo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maʔapo/, [ᵐbaʔaˈpo]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Hyphenation: mba‧'a‧po

Verb

mba'apo

  1. to work

References

  • Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “mba'apo”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 54, column 2
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