îagûara

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Old Tupi[edit]

îagûara (sense 1)
îagûara (sense 2)

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawar.[1][2]

Cognate with Guaraní jagua.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /jaˈɡwa.ɾa/, [jaˈɡʷa.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -aɾa
  • Hyphenation: îa‧gûa‧ra

Noun[edit]

îagûara (unpossessable)

  1. jaguar (Panthera onca)
    Synonym: îagûareté
  2. (Late Tupi) dog (Canis familiaris)
    Synonyms: eîmbaba îagûara, îagûamimbaba
  3. (broadly) carnivoran
    îagûapopeba ― river otter (literally, “flat-footed jaguar”)
  4. Venus; Evening Star
    Synonym: îasytatagûasu

Usage notes[edit]

  • With the advent of colonization, Tupians used the names of similar native animals to call the unknown species brought by the Europeans. Neologisms were then created by using eté (“true”) and eîmbaba／mimbaba (“domestic animal”) as a form to differentiate the old and new species, respectively.

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Descendants[edit]

  • Nheengatu: yawara
  • → English: jaguar
  • → French: jaguar
  • →? Latvian: jaguārs
  • Portuguese: → jaguara, →? jaguar
  • →? Spanish: jaguar

References[edit]

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  2. ^ Miriam Lemle (1971) “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29)‎[2], volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma
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