îagûara

Old Tupi

îagûara (sense 1)

îagûara (sense 2)

Alternative forms

Historical forms: iaguá; iaguara; jaguá; jaguara; iaguareté (true jaguar, in opposition to a dog); jaguapitãguçu (jaguar); jaguamimbaba (domestic dog).
Modern tupinologists respelled Old Tupi with a Guaranicized orthography: îaûara; îagûá.

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní jagua.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

îagûara (unpossessable)

jaguar (Panthera onca)
Synonym: îagûareté
dog (Canis familiaris)
Synonyms: eîmbaba îagûara, îagûamimbaba
any ferocious hunting beast
Venus; Evening Star
Synonym: îasytatagûasu

Hyponyms

(canids) îagûara; agûará, îagûapopeba, îagûapytanga, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)/îagûamimbaba, îagûararuapema, îagûarusu ^{(Category: tpw:Canids)}

Derived terms

îagûapopeba
îagûapytanga
îagûapytanga
îagûarakangusu
îagûarana
îagûarapeba
îagûarema
îagûaresá
îagûareté
îagûaruna
îagûarusu
Îagûatinga

Descendants

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

Further reading

Anonymous. Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica (VLB). 17th century Old Tupi vocabulary. 1952 Drummond's VLB edition.
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013), “îagûara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 153–154

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