poteĩ

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

Blend of po (“hand”) +‎ peteĩ (“one”), literally “hand one”. Coinage usually attributed to Reinaldo Decoud Larrosa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poteˈĩ/
  • Rhymes: -ĩ
  • Hyphenation: po‧te‧ĩ

Adjective

poteĩ

  1. (cardinal number, neologism) six
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Derived terms

References

  • Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “poteĩ”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 90, 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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