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 (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 154, column 2