nhandu

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: nha‧ndu

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.

Noun

nhandu (unpossessable)

  1. greater rhea (Rhea americana)[1][2]
    Synonym: nhandugûasu
Descendants
  • Portuguese: nandu, nhandu

Etymology 2

Noun

nhandu (unpossessable)

  1. cake bush (Piper marginatum)[3]
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 242:Yandou [Îandu]
  2. ^ anonymous author (1622) “Ema, aue”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 110:Nhãdû
  3. ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 75:Nhamdu

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

nhandu m (plural nhandus)

  1. Alternative form of nandu