îupará

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ju.paˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: îu‧pa‧rá

Noun

îupará (unpossessable)

1. kinkajou (Potos flavus)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: yupará
• → Brazilian Portuguese: jupará

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CVIII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 258: “jupará [îupará]”
• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 252v: “Ioupara [Îupará]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îupará”, 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, pages 198–199
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 251