pûãbe'engaba

== Old Tupi == === Etymology === By surface analysis, pûã (“finger”) +‎ pobe'eng (“to point”) +‎ -ab (instrumentalizer suffix) +‎ -a, literally “pointing finger”. === Noun === pûãbe'engaba (possessable, absolute mûãbe'engaba) index finger ==== Coordinate terms ==== === References === Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (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, page 406, column 2