kapi'iûara
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
- kapi'ibara, kapibara, kapi'igûara
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kapiʔiβar. By surface analysis, kapi'i (“grass”) + gûara (“eater”).[1]
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní kapi'yva.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ka.pi.ʔiˈwa.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -aɾa
- Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧'i‧ûa‧ra
Noun
kapi'iûara (unpossessable)
- capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
- [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CI, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 230:
- Nos rios de agua doce e nas lagôas tambem se criam muitos porcos, a que os indios chamam capibaras, que não são tamanhos como os porcos do mato […] não tem na boca mais que dous dentes grandes […] comem herva ao longo da agua, donde sahem em terra […]
- In the freshwater rivers and lagoons live many pigs, that the Indians call “kapibara”, which aren't as big as the wild pigs […] they have no more than two big teeth in their mouth […] they eat weed along the water, where they go on land […] ]
- [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter VII (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 230:
- Capybara Braſilienſibus, Porcus eſt fluviatilis […]
- “Kapibara” from Brazil, river-pig.]
Descendants
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kapibara”, 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 217, column 2
- Joseph of Anchieta (1560) [Ao Padre Geral, de São Vicente] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as chapter X, in Júlio Afrânio Peixoto, compiler, Cartas, informações, fragmentos historicos e sermões [Letters, information, historical fragments and sermons] (Cartas jesuiticas; 3), Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1933, page 122: “capiyûára [kapi'iûara]”