gûaragûasu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) guaraguaçû

Etymology

From gûará (a fish of the family Cichlidae) +‎ -gûasu (augmentative suffix), literally big guará.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [waˌɾa.waˈsu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: gûa‧ra‧gûa‧su
  • Homophone: Ûaraûasu

Noun

gûaragûasu (unpossessable)

  1. a fish of the family Carangidae. Further details are uncertain.

References

  • 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 277

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