pirãîa

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Old Tupi

pirãîa

Alternative forms

Historical spellings
Lamy (1540) PYRAIN
d'Abbeville (1614) pyrain / pirain
VLB (1624) pirãnha / piraya
Marcgrave (1648) piraya

Etymology

    Derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pirãj. By surface analysis, pirá (“fish”) +‎ ãî (“toothed”) +‎ -a.[1]

    Cognate with Guaraní pirãi.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pirãîa (unpossessable)

    1. piranha (any carnivorous freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae)
      • Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXLIV, 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 301: “Piranha”
      • Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Dos peixes das agoas doçes”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 89; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 205, line 2296: “Piranha”
      • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XL, 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 247: “Pyrain [Pirãî]”
      • Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter XII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 164: “Piraya [Pirãîa]”

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: piranha
    • → Portuguese: piranha

    Noun

    pirãîa (possessable)

    1. scissors
      • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLVII, 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 283v: “Pirain [Pirãî]”
      • anonymous author (1622) “Tisoura”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 129: “Pirãnha, Piraya [Piranha, Pirãîa]”

    References

    1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pirãîa”, 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 385, column 1
    • 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 276
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