agûaragûasu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• aûaraûasu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awarawat͡su. By surface analysis, agûará +‎ -gûasu (“big”).

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní aguara guasu, aguarasu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡwaˌɾa.ɡwaˈsu/, [a.ɡʷaˌɾa.ɡʷaˈsu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: a‧gûa‧ra‧gûa‧su

Noun

agûaragûasu (unpossessable)

1. maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

   Synonym: agûará

Descendants

• → Portuguese: aguaraçu

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûaragûasu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 14, column 1