ku'i

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kuʔi.^[1]

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní ku'i.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈʔi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ku‧'i

ku'i (possessable)

1. flour (powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains)

   Synonym: u'i

2. powder; dust (fine particles)

   Synonym: tubyra

3. crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)
4. (broadly) any milled substance

• Nheengatu: kuí
• → Brazilian Portuguese: cuí

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ku'i”, 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 239, column 2