agûaragûasu

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awarawat͡su. By surface analysis, agûará +‎ -gûasu (augmentative suffix).

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní aguara guasu, aguarasu.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

agûaragûasu (unpossessable)

1. maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

   Synonym: agûará

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 66; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

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     [Xe agûaragûasu, îagûara.]

     I'm a maned wolf, a jaguar.

Coordinate terms

• (canids) agûará (agûaragûasu), îagûapytanga, îagûara (îagûamimbaba, eŷmbaba îagûara)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: aguaraçu

Further reading

• anonymous author (1622) “Lobo, animal”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 23: “Aguaraguaçû [Agûaragûasu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûaragûasu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 14, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 249