tapi'ira

Old Tupi

tapi'ira (sense 1)

tapi'ira (sense 2)

Alternative forms

tapiira, tapiîra

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ta.piˈʔi.ɾa/
Rhymes: -iɾa
Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧'i‧ra

Noun

tapi'ira

tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
cattle (Bos taurus)

Usage notes

This word began being used to refer to cows and oxen after these were brought by the Portuguese, thus the terms tapi'ireté (literally “true tapir”) and tapi'irusu (literally “great tapir”) were created as a way to differentiate between them. The same happened with îagûara and taîasu.

Derived terms

tapi'ikaba
tapi'ira'yrusu
tapi'irapekũ
tapi'irapé
tapi'iraraîygûera
tapi'irarepanakũ
tapi'irarõana
tapi'irerekoara
tapi'iresá
tapi'ireté
tapi'irusu

Descendants

→ Portuguese: Tapira, tapira, tapiira
→ French: tapir
- → English: tapir
- → German: Tapir
- → Ottoman Turkish: طاپر‎
  - Turkish: tapir
- → Polish: tapir
  - → Kashubian: tapir
- →? Portuguese: tapir
- →? Spanish: tapir
  - → Catalan: tapir
  - → Dutch: tapir
  - → Tagalog: tapir
- → Swedish: tapir

References

Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013), “tapi'ira”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 462–463

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