pûãbe'engaba

Old Tupi

Etymology

By surface analysis, pûã (“finger”) +‎ pobe'eng (“to point”) +‎ -ab (“tool, means”) +‎ -a, literally “finger for pointing”.

Noun

pûãbe'engaba (absolute mûãbe'engaba) (possessable)

index finger

Coordinate terms

(fingers) pûã; pûãgûasu, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), pûãmytera, pûãmyterybyrixûara, pûãmirĩ ^{(Category: tpw:Fingers)}

References

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013), “pûã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 406, column 2

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