aîura

• anhura, îura, nhura

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jur, from Proto-Tupian *wut.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ajúra.

aîura (possessable)

1. neck (part of the body connecting the head and the trunk)
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Da inſtituição do Domingo”, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Catalogo dos dias Santos de guarda, & de jejum (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 12v:

     Oyâbo acé Sanctos ará cuábi, oyábo bê acé ycãgoerĩ tiruã mombaêtêo oaiuri cerecõbocecê onhemoapicicatuabo yepi cecé oyerobiâ.

     [Oîabo asé santos 'ara kuabi, oîabo bé asé i kangûerĩ tiruã momba'etéû o aîuri serekóbo sesé onhemoapysykatuabo îepi sesé oîerobîá.]

     The same way people acknowledge the saints' days, they too worship even their little bones as well, keeping them in their necks so as to always comfort themselves, trusting in them.

2. neck (the tapered part of a bottle toward the opening)
   • 1622, anonymous author, “Colo mui delgado como da cabaça”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 77; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Jganhurĩ.

     [Yganhurĩ.]

     Bottle gourd.

     (literally, “Small neck calabash.”)

• Nheengatu: ayura

• Pero de Castilho (1613) “pescoço”, in Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 28, line 16: “Aiûra [Aîura]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aîura”, 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 19, columns 1–2