yperu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• iperu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨ.pɛˈɾu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: y‧pe‧ru

Noun

yperu (unpossessable)

1. shark (fish of the superorder Selachimorpha)

Derived terms

• Iperu'y
• iperuîagûara
• yperukyba
• yperupinima
• yperuûasu

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: iperú

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXXVIII, 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 281: “Uperu [Yperu]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Tubarão”, 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 138: “Yperû [Iperu]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) chapter 1, in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], volume 1 (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 172: “Iperv [Iperu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “yperu”, 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 530, 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, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 281