kuati

Paraguayan Guaraní

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kʷati.[1][2]

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní kuaxi and Old Tupi kûati.

Noun

kuati

ring-tailed coati (Nasua nasua)

Related terms

kuati ha'eño
kuati monde

Descendants

→ Spanish: coatí
- → Catalan: coatí
- → English: coati
- → French: coati
  - → Romanian: coati
- → Finnish: koati

References

Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
Miriam Lemle (1971) “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29)‎, volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma

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