taîasu

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ta‧îa‧su

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tajat͡ʃu.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tajaxu.

taîasu (unpossessable, female equivalent taîasukunhã)

1. collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

   Synonyms: taîasupytá, taîtetu

2. (Late Tupi, hapax) white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari)^[6]

   Synonyms: taîasuka'aygûara, taîasueté, taîasutirika

3. (Late Tupi) domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica)

   Synonym: taîasugûaîa

   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, compiled by Eduardo de Almeida Navarro and Helder Perri Ferreira, Poemas: lírica portuguesa e tupi (Poetas do Brasil; 5), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, published 2004, →ISBN, page 152:

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     [Endé-te, nde resemõ arinhama, taîasu.]

     But you, chickens and pigs are plentiful.

   • 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 76; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Tajaçu remiuru.

     [Taîasu remi'uru.]

     Pig's trough.

• Nheengatu: tayasú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: taiaçu
• → Translingual: Tayassu, Pecari tajacu (learned)

• taîaûasu

taîasu (?)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:^[7]
   1. a plant of the genus Xanthosoma
   2. a plant of the genus Ipomoea

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “taîasu”, 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 457, column 2
• 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, pages 248–249