gûyrá
See also: guyra
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨra.[1]
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní guyra.
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Noun edit
gûyrá (unpossessable)
- bird
- 1614, Claude d'Abbeville, “De la mort de trois Indiens Topinamba qui eſtoient venus en France” (chapter LVII), in Histoire de la Mission des Peres Capucins en Lªisle de Maragnan et terres circonuoisines […][2] (overall work in French and Old Tupi), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 353:
- […] ouyratin oour chèuè […]
- [ […] ûyratinga our xébe […] ]
- A white bird came to me.
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References edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûyrá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil[3] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 138–139