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Old Tupi
Etymology
Navarro derives it from meru (“fly”) + ãî (“toothed”) + -a,[1] but the E>U change is unexplained. Possibly an alternative form *mberuanha existed, as seen in the Portuguese borrowing beruanha, but wasn't recorded.
Pronunciation
Noun
muruanha (?)
- (hapax, Late Tupi) stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)
Descendants
References
- Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XCCI, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 241: “muruanja ”
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 293