marakaîagûasu
Old Tupi
Etymology
From marakaîá (“wild cat”) + -gûasu (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ma.ɾa.kaˌja.ɡʷaˈsu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ka‧îa‧gûa‧su
- Homophone: Marakaîagûasu
Noun
marakaîagûasu (unpossessable)
- (Língua Geral Amazônica) ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
- Synonym: *îagûatyryka
Usage notes
- In Old Tupi, the term is only attested through the name of the temiminó leader Marakaîagûasu. For the animal, the first register is from the 19th century, in Língua Geral Amazônica.
Coordinate terms
felidsedit
- bixana (LGA)
- marakaîaeté
- marakaîagûasu (LGA)
- marakaîamimbaba
- marakaîamirĩ
- marakaîá
- îagûapytangusu, sûasuarana
- îagûara, îagûarakangusu, îagûareté, *îagûaruna, îagûarusu
- *îagûatyryka (LGP)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Nheengatu: marakayawasú
- → Brazilian Portuguese: maracajá-açu
References
- José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “jaguatirica”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 151: “MARACAJA’ GUASSU [Marakaîagûasu]”
- 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 250