akuti

Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi akuti.

Noun

akuti

agouti

Related terms

akuti sa'yju
akutipuru

Descendants

→ Spanish: agutí (with regular voicing of intervocalic /k/)
- → Catalan: agutí
- → Finnish: aguti

Old Tupi

akuti

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní akuti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.kuˈti/
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: a‧ku‧ti

Noun

akuti (unpossessable)

agouti

Related terms

akutimirĩ

Descendants

Nheengatu: akutí
→ French: agouti, acouchi
- →? Dutch: agoeti
  - Afrikaans: agoeti
  - → Sranan Tongo: aguti
- → English: agouti, acouchi, acouchy
- → Italian: aguti
- →? Russian: агути (aguti)
→ Portuguese: cutia (with regular loss of word-initial /a/), aguti, aguchi, acouti, acuti

Further reading

Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “akuti”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 27, column 1

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