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"text": "Le plus gros que les Sauuages appelent Hay eſt de la grandeur d'vn gros chien barbet, a la face (comme la Guenon) approchante de celle de l'hõme[…]",
"translation": "History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America",
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"ref": "[1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CVII, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 236:",
"text": "N’estes matos se cria um animal mui estranho, a que os indios chamam ahy, e os portuguezes preguiça[…]; o qual é felpudo como cão d’agua, e do mesmo tamanho; e tem a cor cinzenta, os braços e pernas grandes, com pouca carne, e muita lã; tem as unhas como cão e muito voltadas; a cabeça como gato, mas coberta de gadelhas que lhe cobrem os olhos; os dentes como gato.",
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"english": "Brazilian Natural History",
"ref": "[1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter I (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 221:",
"text": "AI Braſilienſibus, Luſitanis Priguiza, Noſtratibus Luyaert / id eſt, Ignavus: animal magnitudine mediocris Vulpis noſtratis[…]",
"translation": "Brazilian Natural History",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus)"
],
"links": [
[
"Bradypus variegatus",
"Wikispecies:Bradypus variegatus"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[aˈʔɨ]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɨ"
}
],
"word": "a'y"
}
Download raw JSONL data for a'y meaning in All languages combined (8.5kB)
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