Reconstruction:Old Tupi/îagûaruna
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From îagûara (“jaguar”) + un (“black”) + -a.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*îagûaruna (unpossessable)
- black panther (melanistic colour variant of the jaguar (Panthera onca))
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Îagûaruna”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 154, column 2