Indri

indri Translingual Etymology Likely from mul mg endira; see here for more. Proper noun 1 m genus family Indriidae the indri, a large lemur Hypernyms family ; Strepsirrhini suborder - suborder; Lemuriformes infraorder - infraorder; Lemuroidea superfamily - superfamily; Indriidae family - family Hyponyms Indri indri species — sole species References 1 1 1 12100081 English + people Noun p A mostly Muslim ethnic group of Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. Proper noun Their Ubangian language. German de: Pronunciation de De-Indri.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,,s indri a large lemur, (Indri indri species) Further reading de Prosimians Maltese Etymology mt scn Andrìa, from mt la Andreas, from mt grc Ἀνδρέας. It being an early borrowing, the initial vowel underwent regular imala. Otherwise one would expect Indrija. It may be conjectured that the -a was deleted in order to avoid the feminine-sounding ending and the stress then shifted to the first syllable according to the stress system of older Maltese. Pronunciation mt /ˈɪn.drɪ/ mt ɪndrɪ 2 Proper noun proper noun m mt also biblical mt male Sicilian < Latin < Ancient Greek Andrew