Reconstruction:Old Tupi/îagûaruna
Old Tupi edit
Etymology edit
From îagûara (“jaguar”) + un (“black”) + -a.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
*îagûaruna (unpossessable)
- black panther (melanistic colour variant of the jaguar (Panthera onca))
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Îagûaruna”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 154, column 2