nhandu
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
- îandu, nhandy
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɲãˈⁿdu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: nha‧ndu
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.
Noun
nhandu (unpossessable)
- greater rhea (Rhea americana)[1][2]
- Synonym: nhandugûasu
Related terms
- nhanduapu'a
- nhandugûasu
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
nhandu (unpossessable)
Descendants
- → Portuguese: nhandu
References
- ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 242: “Yandou [Îandu]”
- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Ema, aue”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 110: “Nhãdû [Nhandu]”
- ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 75: “Nhamdu [Nhandu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “nhandu”, 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 334, column 1
- 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 268
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɲɐ̃ˈdu/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɲɐ̃ˈdu/
Noun
nhandu m (plural nhandus)
- alternative form of nandu