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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: y‧pe‧ru
Noun
yperu (unpossessable)
- shark (fish of the superorder Selachimorpha)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXII, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen, volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Ipperu Waſu [Iperuûasu]”
- André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 67, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 133r: “Houperou [Yperu]”
- Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXXVIII, 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 281: “Uperu [Yperu]”
- anonymous author (1622) “Tubarão”, 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 138: “Yperû [Iperu]”
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter XV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 172: “Iperv [Iperu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “yperu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 530, column 2
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 284