Reconstruction:Old Tupi/îagûaruna
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This Old Tupi entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Old Tupi
Etymology
From îagûara (“jaguar”) + un (“black”) + -a.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
*îagûaruna (unpossessable)
- black panther (melanistic colour variant of the jaguar (Panthera onca))
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Îagûaruna”, 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 154, column 2