arasari

Old Tupi

Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, page 217

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.ɾa.saˈɾi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧sa‧ri

Noun

arasari (unpossessable)

1. black-necked aracari (Pteroglossus aracari)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: arasarí
• → Brazilian Portuguese: araçari
  • → English: aracari, araçari

References

• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Histoire de la Mission des Peres Capucins en Lªisle de Maragnan et terres circonuoisines […] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 238: “Araʃary [Arasari]”
• George Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) chapter XV, in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, volume V (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 217: “Aracari [Arasari]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arasari”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 60, column 2