agûaragûasu
Old Tupi edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awarawat͡su. By surface analysis, agûará + -gûasu (“big”).
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní aguara guasu, aguarasu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
agûaragûasu (unpossessable)
- maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
- Synonym: agûará
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: aguaraçu
Further reading edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûaragûasu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 14, column 1