meriti'yba

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m.ɛ.ɾi.tiˈʔɨ.βa/, [m.ɛ.ɾi.tiˈʔɨ.β̞a]
Rhymes: -ɨβa
Hyphenation: me‧ri‧ti‧'y‧ba

Noun

meriti'yba (unpossessable)

moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa)
Synonym: moretĩ

Further reading

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “meriti'yba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 278, column 1

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