tapi'ira

Old Tupi

tapi'ira (sense 1)

tapi'ira (sense 2)

Alternative forms

• tapiira, tapiîra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.piˈʔi.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧'i‧ra

Noun

tapi'ira (unpossessable)

1. tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
2. (Late Tupi) cattle (Bos taurus)

Usage notes

• With the advent of colonization, Tupians used the names of similar native animals to call the unknown species brought by the Europeans. Neologisms were then created by using eté (“true”) and eîmbaba／mimbaba (“domestic animal”) as a form to differentiate the old and new species, respectively.

Derived terms

• tapi'ikaba
• tapi'ira'yrusu
• tapi'irapekũ
• tapi'irapé
• tapi'iraraîygûera
• tapi'irarepanakũ
• tapi'irarõana
• tapi'irerekoara
• tapi'iresá
• tapi'ireté
• tapi'irusu

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: Tapira, tapira, tapiira
• → French: tapir
  • → English: tapir
  • → German: Tapir
  • → Ottoman Turkish: طاپر
    • Turkish: tapir
  • → Polish: tapir
    • → Kashubian: tapir
  • →? Portuguese: tapir
  • →? Spanish: tapir
    • → Catalan: tapir
    • → Dutch: tapir
    • → Tagalog: tapir
  • → Swedish: tapir

References

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tapi'ira”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil‎^[2] (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 462–463