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andyrá

Old Tupi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *anɨra.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ã.ⁿdɨ.ˈɾa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧ndy‧rá

Noun

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andyrá (unpossessable)

  1. bat (any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera)[1]
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 42; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      (please add the primary text of this quotation)
      [Andyrá ruãpe é, panama koîpó gûaîkuíka?]
      Is it a bat, a butterfly or a cuica?
  2. (strictly) common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)[2][1][3]
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Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: andirá

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXVI, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 233: “andura [andyrá]”
  2. ^ André Thevet (1575) chapter XVI, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 992: “andura [andyrá]”
  3. ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, 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 240: “Andheura [Andyrá]”
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