pokõi
Paraguayan Guarani
Etymology
Blend of po (“hand”) + mokõi (“two”), literally “hand two”. Coinage usually attributed to Reinaldo Decoud Larrosa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈkõj/
- Rhymes: -õj
- Hyphenation: po‧kõi
Adjective
pokõi
- (cardinal number, neologism) seven
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Derived terms
References
- Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “pokõi”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 89, column 1
Further reading
- Estigarribia, Bruno (2020), “Nominals” (chapter 3), in A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani (overall work in English), London: UCL Press, , →ISBN, pages 99–100