kapi'iûara
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Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kapiʔiβar. By surface analysis, kapi'i (“grass”) + gûara (“eater”).[1]
Cognate with Guaraní kapi'yva.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kapi'iûara (unpossessable)
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kapibara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 217, column 2
- George Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) chapter VII, in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, volume VI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 230: “Capybara [Kapibara]”
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 254
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