gûyrapunga

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • gûyraponga

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨrapoŋ.[1] By surface analysis, gûyrá (“bird”) +‎ pong (“percussive”) +‎ -a.[2]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní guyrapõ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡʷɨ.ɾaˈpũ.ŋa]
  • Rhymes: -ũŋa
  • Hyphenation: gûy‧ra‧pu‧nga

Noun

gûyrapunga (unpossessable)

  1. bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis)

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: araponga, guiraponga, uiraponga, iraponga
    • → English: araponga

References

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  2. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûyrapunga”, 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 140, column 1
  • Jácome Monteiro (1610) Relação da província do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Serafim Leite, editor, História da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil, volume VIII, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1949, page 425: “guirá ponguá”
  • 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 263
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