îagûareté

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawarete. By surface analysis, îagûara +‎ eté.

Coagnate with Paraguayan Guaraní jaguarete and Urubú-Kaapor jawarete.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ja.ɡʷa.ɾɛˈtɛ]
Rhymes: -ɛ
Hyphenation: îa‧gûa‧re‧té

Noun

îagûareté (unpossessable)

jaguar (Panthera onca)
Synonym: îagûara
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 66; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
  Xe iaguarete iporu
  [Xe îagûareteporu]
  I'm a man-eater jaguar

Coordinate terms

felidsedit

bixana (LGA)
marakaîaeté
marakaîagûasu (LGA)
marakaîamimbaba
marakaîamirĩ
marakaîá
îagûapytangusu, sûasuarana
îagûara, îagûarakangusu, îagûareté, *îagûaruna, îagûarusu
*îagûatyryka (LGP)

Derived terms

Îagûareté

Descendants

Nheengatu: yawareté
→ Portuguese: jaguaretê

References

André Thevet (1575) chapter VI, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d'André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 919v: “Iarnare-este [Îagûareté]”
Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § IIII (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1301: “Iagoarete [Îagûareté]”
Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XCV, 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 244: “jaguareté [îagûareté]”
anonymous author (1622) “Onça, ou tigre”, 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 56: “Iaguaretê [Îagûareté]”
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îagûareté”, 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 154
Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 249