taîyby

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• taibĩ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.jɨˈβ̞ɨ]
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: ta‧îy‧by

Noun

taîyby (unpossessable, female equivalent sarigûeîa)

1. male opossum

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “taîyby”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 458, column 2