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Possibly from Malagasyendrina(“the lemur Indri indri”). A common explanation asserts that the word comes from the Malagasyindry (pronounced /ˈiɳɖʐʲ/) meaning “lo!” or “behold!”, or from indry izy(“There he is!”), which guides shouted to the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) upon seeing the animal, and which Sonnerat mistook for its name,[1] but it has been suggested that Sonnerat studied indris too closely for this story to be plausible.[2]
Indri, the ſecond new genus, conſiſts at preſent but of two ſpecies, the Linnæan lemur indri and the laniger; the former of which is lemur brevicaudatus of Geoffroy [i.e., Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]; and the latter indri longicaudatus of the ſame author.
The indris are distuinguished by having only thirty teeth. [...] The Indri (Indris laniger) is the largest known species of the lemurine Quadrumana, measuring when erect more than three feet in height, and is of very remarkable form. [...] The indris inhabit the forests of Madagascar. They are very gentle, and although not remarkable for intelligence, are trained by the natives (who call the indri, "the man of the woods"), to hunt, probably for birds.
1993, Jan Sovak, Zoo Animals Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series), New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 20:
The Indri (Indri indri; top left), the largest prosimian at up to three feet long (excluding tail) and 22 pounds, eats plant matter.
1999, Ernest Pillsbury Walker, Ronald M. Nowak, “Avahi, Sifakas, and Indri: Indriiae”, in Walker’s Primates of the World, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 84, column 2:
The indri inhabits coastal and montane rainforest from sea level to about 1,800 meters.
2011, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, “Knowing Our Collegial Relations”, in How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom, Alexandria, Va.: ASCD, →ISBN, page 134:
Indris are known for their calls, some of which are truly eerie and can be heard for miles in the dense undergrowth.
^ Ian Hacking (1981 October) “Was There Ever a Radical Mistranslation?”, in Analysis, volume 41, number 4, London: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, pages 173–174; Alexander R. Dunkel, Jelle S. Zijlstra, Colin P. Groves (2011–2012) “Giant Rabbits, Marmosets, and British Comedies: Etymology of Lemur Names, Part 1”, in Lemur News, volume 16, pages 67–68.
Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “indri”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 69
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900; “indri”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
