pûã

• IPA^(key): /pwã/, [pʷã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: pûã

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pwã. Cognate with Guaraní kuã.

pûã (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mûã)

1. finger (extremity of the hand)

   Holonym: pó (“hand”)

   Coordinate term: pysã (“toe”)

• Nheengatu: puã
• → Portuguese: puã

pûã (first-person singular active indicative aîopûã, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîopûãî, noun pûã) (transitive)

1. alternative form of pûan

• Pero de Castilho (1613) “dedo da mão [finger]”, in Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 33, line 117: “Moã”
• anonymous author (1622) “Dedo da mão [Finger]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 91: “Moã”

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pûã”, 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, pages 406–407