arerãîa

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.ɾɛˈɾã.ja]
• Rhymes: -ãja
• Hyphenation: a‧re‧rã‧îa

Noun

arerãîa (unpossessable)

1. giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

   Synonyms: sarigûeîmbeîu, tagûaranha, ûiûiá, ybyîa

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: ariranha

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CI, 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 251: “Arerã [Arerã[îa]]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Lontra”, 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 24: “Areraya [Arerãîa]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arerãîa”, 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 62, 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, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 250