mokõi

Kaiwá

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mokõy.

Cognate with Old Tupi mokõî and Paraguayan Guarani mokõi.

Numeral

mokõi

  1. two

References

  • 2010 (originally 1966), John Michael Taylor, Statement of Kaiwá Grammar from Clause to Morpheme Level, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 45.

Old Tupi

Numeral

mokõi

  1. obsolete form of mokõî

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mokõy. By surface analysis, mo- (causative prefix) +‎ kõi (“double”), literally “to make double”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈkõj/
  • Rhymes: -õj
  • Hyphenation: mo‧kõi

Adjective

mokõi

  1. (cardinal number) two
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Derived terms

References

  • Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “mokõi”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 64, column 2

Further reading

  • Estigarribia, Bruno (2020), “Nominals” (chapter 3), in A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani (overall work in English), London: UCL Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 99–100
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