eîrara
Old Tupi
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editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar/*eirjar. By surface analysis, eíra (“honey”) + ar (“to drink”) + -a, literally “honey drinker”.
Cognate with Guarayu eirar and Guaraní eira.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editeîrara (unpossessable)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- André Thevet (1575) chapter XIII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 940: “Heirat [Eîrar[a]]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “eîrara”, 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 91, column 2
- 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 250
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- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi compound terms
- Old Tupi terms suffixed with -a
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/aɾa
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/aɾa/3 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi unpossessable nouns
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