tembikuaa

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

From tembi- (nominalizing prefix) +‎ kuaa (“to know”), literally “something that is known”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /te.mbi.kwaˈa/
  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

tembikuaa (dependent form rembikuaa, third-person possessed form hembikuaa)

  1. knowledge, intelligence, wisdom

References

  • Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “tembikuaa”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 106, column 2
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