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Old Tupi
Etymology
From inĩ (“hammock”) + -gûasu (augmentative suffix), literally “big hammock”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: I‧nĩ‧gûa‧su
Proper noun
Inĩgûasu
- (hapax) a male given name
References
- Vicente do Salvador (1627) “Do principio da rebellião, e guerras do Gentio da Parahiba” (chapter 22), in Historia do Brasil, volume 3 (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Capistrano de Abreu, editor, Historia do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, 1889, page 96: “Iniguasú [Inĩgûasu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Inĩgûasu”, 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 187, column 1