yperu

• iperu

• IPA^(key): [ɨ.pɛˈɾu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: y‧pe‧ru

yperu (unpossessable)

1. shark (fish of the superorder Selachimorpha)

• Nheengatu: iperú

• Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXII, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Ipperu Waſu [Iperuûasu]”
• André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 67, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 133r: “Houperou [Yperu]”
• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXXVIII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 281: “Uperu [Yperu]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Tubarão”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 138: “Yperû [Iperu]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter XV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 172: “Iperv [Iperu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “yperu”, 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 530, column 2
• 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 284