sûasuarana

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʷaˌsu.aˈɾã.na]
  • Rhymes: -ãna
  • Hyphenation: sûa‧su‧a‧ra‧na

Noun

sûasuarana (unpossessable)

  1. cougar (Puma concolor)
    Synonym: îagûapytangusu

Coordinate terms

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Descendants

  • Nheengatu: suasuarana
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: suaçurana, Suassurana

References

  • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, 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 251v: “Souaſſouaran [Sûasuaran[a]]”
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sûasuarana”, 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 446, 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, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 250
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