agûaragûasu
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awarawat͡su. By surface analysis, agûará + -gûasu (augmentative suffix).
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní aguara guasu, aguarasu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editagûaragûasu (unpossessable)
- maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
- Synonym: agûará
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 66; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
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- [Xe agûaragûasu, îagûara.]
- I'm a maned wolf, a jaguar.
Coordinate terms
edit- (canids) agûará (agûaragûasu), îagûapytanga, îagûara (îagûamimbaba, eŷmbaba îagûara)
Descendants
edit- → Portuguese: aguaraçu
Further reading
edit- anonymous author (1622) “Lobo, animal”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 23: “Aguaraguaçû [Agûaragûasu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûaragûasu”, 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, page 14, column 1
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus [16th century catalogue of the Brazilian coast's fauna as documented by European authors]”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 249
Categories:
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms suffixed with -gûasu
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/u
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/u/5 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi unpossessable nouns
- Old Tupi terms with quotations from the Play of Saint Lawrence
- tpw:South American canids