etãmirĩ
Old Tupi
Etymology
From etama (“land”) + mirĩ (“small”), literally “small land”.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ĩ
- Hyphenation: e‧tã‧mi‧rĩ
Noun
etãmirĩ (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tetãmirĩ, R1 retãmirĩ, R2 setãmirĩ) (Língua Geral Paulista)
- (hapax legomenon) island
- Synonym: 'ypa'ũ
References
- anonymous author (18th century) “Ilha”, in Língua geral dos índios das Américas [General language of the Indians of the Americas][1] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), page 4, line 229: “têtamirim”