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)
- 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, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 277
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûaragûasu”, 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 134, column 1