py

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py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)


aba

aba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute taba, R1 raba, R2 saba)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *rap, from Proto-Mawé-Guaraní *t͡sap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé sap, Guaraní ague.


pé

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe, from Proto-Tupian *pe.

scale (keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals, particularly fish and reptiles)


kunhã

Nheengatu: kunhã

→ Portuguese: cunhã

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kujã.
Cognate with Guaraní kuña and Mbyá Guaraní kunha.


tapi'ira

Nheengatu: tapiira

→ Portuguese: Tapira, tapira, tapiira

desctree

→? 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

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiʔir.
Cognate with Guajajára tapi'ir and Mbyá Guaraní tapi'i.

inh+

tapi'ikaba

Tapijra oço ogoapixara pyri[…]

c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 68:


eíra

Nheengatu: ira

Etymology tree
Proto-Tupian *ewit
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eir
Proto-Tupian *-ap
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
Old Tupi -a
Old Tupi eíraFrom Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eir + Old Tupi -a.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní ei and Paraguayan Guaraní eíra.

etymon

honey (sweet substance produced by bees)


eíra

Nheengatu: ira

→ Brazilian Portuguese: irá

meliponine (any stingless bee of the tribe Meliponini)


kabaru

Nheengatu: kawarú

Borrowed from Portuguese cavalo, from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Latin caballus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kaballos.

Cabarû repanacû.

1622, anonymous author, “Sella do caualo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume II (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 115; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

Cabarú çoce.

c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 66:

Equus ferus caballus
Equus ferus caballus#Translingual


kabará

Capra aegagrus hircus
Capra aegagrus hircus#Translingual


sygûasumẽ

Nheengatu: suasumé

Coined by Spanish Jesuit missionary Joseph of Anchieta, from sygûasu (“deer”) + mẽ (“baa, cry of a goat”).

af

[…]sygûasumé rerekoara oîosupotá o îara[…]

16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Polo moleiro”, in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, Helder Perri Ferreira, compilers, Poemas: lírica portuguesa e tupi (Poetas do Brasil; 5), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, published 2004, →ISBN, page 164:


eirapu'a

Nheengatu: irapuã

→ Brazilian Portuguese: irapuá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirapuʔa. By surface analysis, eíra (“bee”) + apu'a (“round”).
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní eirapu'a.


tataeíra

Nheengatu: tatá-ira

desc

Brazilian Portuguese: → tataíra, → abelha-de-fogo (calque)

From tatá (“fire”) + eíra (“bee”), referring to its painful bite.


mimbaba

Nheengatu: mimbawa

→ Brazilian Portuguese: mumbavo

Kó 'ara îamoeté Tupãetéramo o ekó pupé apyabetéramo Cristo o sy suí i 'aragûera. Onhemoarûabo mba’eîare’yma îabé, ybyrá itá monhangymbyra kupépe so’o mimbaba roka ogûar gupabamo. Semiuru rupápe i xy i nongi. Ybakygûana onhemoputupab i nhemomoreaûsuba repîaka. 'Ara i pîasaba îekuakupaba.

(Can we date this quote?), Antônio de Araújo, “25. Natiuitas Dòmini. G. I.”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon, page 9v:

On this day, we honor the birth of Christ from his mother as the true God. Becoming humble as the poor, behind a stone-made fence, he took the livestock animal's house as his lodging. His mother put him in their manger. Heaven's inhabitants were astonished seeing he humiliating himself. Day of obligation and fasting.


kabobaîuba

From kaba (“wasp”) + obá (“face”) + îub (“yellow”) + -a.

af

bee of the species Melipona (Michmelia) rufiventris


îate'i

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jataí

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jateʔi.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní jate'i.

inh+

narrow stingless bee (Tetragonisca angustula)


taîasu

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taîasu (unpossessable, female equivalent taîasukunhã)

Nheengatu: tayasú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: taiaçu

desc

→ Translingual: Tayassu, Pecari tajacu (learned)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tajat͡ʃu.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tajaxu.

inh+

Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen

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Gabriel Soares de Sousa
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Noticia do Brasil
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white-lipped peccary
white-lipped peccary

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual

Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
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(Late Tupi, hapax) white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari)

16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, compiled by Eduardo de Almeida Navarro and Helder Perri Ferreira, Poemas: lírica portuguesa e tupi (Poetas do Brasil; 5), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, published 2004, →ISBN, page 152:

But you, chickens and pigs are plentiful.

Tajaçu remiuru.

1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 76; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

(Late Tupi) domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica)


taîasu

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:


ambeaîó

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ambeaîó (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tambeaîó, R1 rambeaîó, R2 sambeaîó)

Holonym: sarigûeîa


petyma

Nheengatu: pitima

→ Brazilian Portuguese: petima

→ French: pétun

Etymology tree
Proto-Tupian *pe
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨm
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm
Proto-Tupian *-ap
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
Old Tupi -a
Old Tupi petyma
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm, from Proto-Tupian *pe.
Cognate with Guaraní petỹ.

inh+

c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 148; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

— Did you bring your tobacco? / — Here. But my fire went out. / — No problem. You there, go bring it in hiding; steal it from around here. / Here I am! My master, I flew. Here is the fire I went after. / — Yes, Tatapytera shall sit here, you there, Moroupîarûera here.

tobacco (any plant in the genus Nicotiana)


eŷmbaba

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eŷmbaba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute teŷmbaba, R1 reŷmbaba, R2 seŷmbaba)

Nheengatu: imbawa

→ Brazilian Portuguese: xerimbabo

[ɛɨ̯ˈᵐba.β̞a]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eɨmaβ.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní ymba.

inh+

Ceigmbaba reco biaramo amo aimeeng yxupe.

1622, anonymous author, “Restituir o mesmo q. se tomou in specie tm. como hũa galinha por outra, etc.”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 103; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

In exchange for their livestock, I gave them another one.


ypeka

Nheengatu: ipeka

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨpek, from Proto-Tupian *ɨpekʲ.

Cairina moschata
Cairina moschata#Translingual

(strictly) Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)


gûyrasapukaîa

From gûyrá (“bird”) + sapukaî (“to scream”) + -a.

af

(Late Tupi) rooster; hen (Gallus gallus domesticus)


sapukaîa

Nheengatu: sapukaya

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: sapucaia
→ English: sapucaia, sapucaya

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sapukaj.


sapukaîa

Nheengatu: sapukaya

(LGA, LGP) rooster; hen (Gallus gallus domesticus)


pepó

Nheengatu: pepú

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pepo, from Proto-Tupian *pepʔo.


kuré

Nheengatu: kuri

(hapax) used by swineherds to call their pigs