gúni
Macanese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Malay guni and/or English gunny, ultimately from Sanskrit गोणी (goṇī́, “sack”), from Dravidian.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgúni
Usage notes
edit- Not to be confused with guní.
References
edit- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “gúni”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 457
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#guni