uba

head

uba (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

Nheengatu: uba

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).
Cognate with Guaraní túva.

inh+

first cousin once removed
first cousin once removed

first cousin once removed (cousin of one's father)


aba

head

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.


tatu

desctree

→ French: tatou, tattou (obsolete)
→ Breton: tatou
→ English: tatou
→ Hungarian: tatu
→ Romanian: tatu

→ Portuguese: tatu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatu, from Proto-Tupian *jat͡sju.
Cognate with Guaraní tatu and Sateré-Mawé sahu.


musu

Nheengatu: musũ

→ Portuguese: muçum

marbled swamp eel (Synbranchus marmoratus)


arara

Nheengatu: arara

→ Portuguese: arara

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *arar, from Proto-Tupian *arat. Doublet of ará.


paka

Nheengatu: paka

→ Portuguese: paca
→ English: paca
→ Galician: paca

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pak.
Cognate with Guaraní paka.

Paka onhan.
The paca ran.

Pacarupiara[…]

1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 73; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

Cuniculus paca
Cuniculus paca#Translingual


parati

Nheengatu: paratí

→ Brazilian Portuguese: parati

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

w:True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

grey mullet Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:


urubu

Nheengatu: urubú

→ Portuguese: urubu
→ Catalan: urubú
→ English: urubu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruβu, from Proto-Tupian *urupˀu.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé uruwu and Guaraní yryvu.

inh+

New World vulture (any vulture in the family Cathartidae)


matamatá

Nheengatu: matamatá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: matamatá

(North Tupi, hapax) matamata (Chelus fimbriata)


irara

Nheengatu: irara

→ Portuguese: irara


gûyrá

Nheengatu: wirá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: uirá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨra.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní guyra.

cog

[…]ouyratin oour chèuè[…]

1614, Claude d'Abbeville, “De la mort de trois Indiens Topinamba qui eſtoient venus en France” (chapter LVII), in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 353:


pirá

Nheengatu: pirá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pira.
Cognate with Guaraní pira.


mboîa

Nheengatu: buya

Eva, îandé syypy,
onhemomotareté
ybaporanga resé,
mboîa nhe'enga rupi,
iî ykyébo, i gûabo nhẽ.

16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Da conceição de Nossa Senhora”, 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 178, lines 1–5:

Eva, our first mother, was much attracted by the beautiful fruit, after the snake’s words, and indeed picking it, and eating it.


akuti

Nheengatu: akutí

→ French: agouti, acouchi

desctree

→? Dutch: agoeti
Afrikaans: agoeti
→ Sranan Tongo: aguti

→ English: agouti, acouchi, acouchy

→ Italian: aguti

→? Russian: агути (aguti)

desc

→ Portuguese: cutia (with regular loss of word-initial /a/), aguti, aguchi, acouti, acuti


marakaîá

Nheengatu: marakayá

→ Portuguese: maracajá, ⇒ gato-maracajá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *marakaja.
Cognate with Guaraní mbarakaja.

îagûara

îagûarakangusu, îagûareté, *îagûaruna, îagûarusu

Gabriel Soares de Sousa
w:Gabriel Soares de Sousa

Noticia do Brasil
w:pt:Notícia do Brasil

Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
w:Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

Leopardus wiedii
Leopardus wiedii#Translingual

small spotted cat of the genus Leopardus. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:

Leopardus pardalis
Leopardus pardalis#Translingual

Leopardus tigrinus
Leopardus tigrinus#Translingual


nhandu

→ Portuguese: nandu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.

Rhea americana
Rhea americana#Translingual


kururu

Nheengatu: kururú

Portuguese: → cururu, ⇒ sapo-cururu

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kururu.
Cognate with Guaraní kururu.

Rhinella marina
Rhinella marina#Translingual

true toad. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:

Anjo. Baepe que tuj opica?
Andira ruâpee.
Panama, coipo guaiquica?
enero, cururu açica?
eri, carigueya e.
Ejori
baenẽ baepoxi
bora, miaratacaca
ceboi, tamarutaca
ſarau[aya] — Xepoeirai, xeropecij
auye, teume xemombaca.

c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^(ço)” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, page 71, lines 483–493; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 133:

Angel: What is here, lying still? Is it a bat, a butterfly or a short-tailed opossum? Maybe a crippled toad? Ay opossum! Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, worm, mantis shrimp.
Saraûaîa: I'm tired, I'm sleepy. Enough! Don't wake me up!


îakaré

Nheengatu: yakaré

desctree

→ Portuguese: jacaré
→ English: yacare
→ Galician: jacaré
→ Hunsrik: Schakaree

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jakare.
Cognate with Guaraní jakare, Tembé zakare and Tocantins Asurini and Xingú Asuriní sakare.

cog

Îakaré 'y suí osem.

caiman (any crocodilian of the subfamily Caimaninae)


îaboti

Nheengatu: yautí

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jabuti
→ English: jabuti

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaβoti.

inh+

red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius)


tapiti

Nheengatu: tapetí, tapiti

→ Portuguese: tapiti
→ English: tapeti

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiti.
Cognate with Guaraní tapiti.


tamandûá

Nheengatu: tamanduá

→ Portuguese: tamanduá

Akó xe îubykarûera, tataûrana, tamandûá, xe îubyk benhẽ potá!!

c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 62; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

That is the one who strangled me, a stinging caterpillar, an anteater, wanting to strangle me again!

Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Myrmecophaga tridactyla#Translingual

(strictly) giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)


anũ

Nheengatu: anú

→ Portuguese: anu
→? English: ani

Crotophaga ani
Crotophaga ani#Translingual


îagûara

Nheengatu: yawara

→ Portuguese: jaguara

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawar.
Cognate with Guaraní jagua.

marakaîá

bixana, *îagûatyryka, marakaîaeté, marakaîagûasu, marakaîamimbaba, marakaîamirĩ

Jau ware ſche[…]

1557, Hans Staden, quoting Cunhambebe, chapter 44, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America] (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:

Ajucancar iaguara Pedro çupe[…]

c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “De algũas dições, que ſos per ſi não ſignificão; mas juntas a outras parstes da oração, lhe dão ſentido differente”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 79v:

Panthera onca
Panthera onca#Translingual

Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris#Translingual

îagûapopeba

river otter (literally, “flat-footed canivoran”)


kaûã

→ Portuguese: cauã

Herpetotheres cachinnans
Herpetotheres cachinnans#Translingual

laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)


gûyratinga

Nheengatu: wirá-tinga

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Guiratinga

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨratiŋ. By surface analysis, gûyrá (“bird”) + ting (“white”) + -a.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní guyratĩ.


baîaku

Nheengatu: mamayakú

→ Portuguese: baiacu

blowfish; porcupinefish (any species of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe)


sagûi

Nheengatu: sawĩ

→ Portuguese: sagui

Callithrix jacchus
Callithrix jacchus#Translingual

(North Tupi) common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)


îararaka

Nheengatu: yararaka

desctree

→ Portuguese: jararaca
→ English: jararaca
→ Hunsrik: Scharack
→ Polish: żararaka

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jararak.
Cognate with Guaraní jarara.


surukuku

Nheengatu: surukukú

→ Portuguese: surucucu


tukana

Nheengatu: tukana

desctree

→ French: toucan m
→ English: toucan
→ Finnish: tukaani

→ New Latin: tucana (learned)

→ Portuguese: tucano m
→ English: Tucano
→ Galician: tucano m
→ Italian: tucano m
→ Nheengatu: tukanu
→ Spanish: tucano m

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tũkãn, from Proto-Tupian *jɨokãn.
Cognate with Kamayurá tukan, Mbyá Guaraní and Wayampi tukã.


îyboîa

Nheengatu: jibuya

→ Portuguese: jiboia
→ English: jiboya

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jɨβoj. By surface analysis, îy'yba (“rainbow”) + mboîa (“snake”).


sabîá

→ Portuguese: sabiá

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní havia and Paraguayan Guaraní havía.

thrush (any species of songbirds of the genus Turdus)


eîrara

→ Portuguese: papa-mel (calque)

>? English: tayra

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar／*eirjar. By surface analysis, eíra (“honey”) + ar (“to drink”) + -a, literally “honey drinker”.
Cognate with Guarayu eirar and Guaraní eira.


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+

[…]xéreimbâba tapiîra

1555, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter V, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, published 1595, page 14v:

Le langaige du breſiL
w:Le langaige du Bresil

Les singularitez de la France Antarctique

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:


tare'ira

Nheengatu: tarira

→ Portuguese: traíra
→ Hunsrik: Traira

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *taraʔir-.
Cognate with Guaraní tare'i.


îabyru

Nheengatu: yaburú

→ Portuguese: jaburu
→ English: jabiru

Jabiru mycteria
Jabiru mycteria#Translingual


îuriti

Nheengatu: yurutí

→ Portuguese: juriti

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *juriti.
Cognate with Guaraní jeruti.


migûá

Nheengatu: miwá

desctree

→ Portuguese: biguá
→ Dutch: bigua-aalscholver

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *miwa.
Cognate with Guaraní mbigua.

Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Phalacrocorax brasilianus#Translingual

neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)


kapi'iûara

Nheengatu: kapiwara

→ Portuguese: capivara

→ English: capybara

→ Spanish: capibara

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kapiʔiβar. By surface analysis, kapi'i (“grass”) + gûara (“eater”).
Cognate with Guaraní kapi'yva.

surf

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris#Translingual


andyrá

Nheengatu: andirá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: andirá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *anɨra.

inh+

Angel: What is here, lying still? Is it a bat, a butterfly or a short-tailed opossum? Maybe a crippled frog? Ay opossum! Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, worm, mantis shrimp.
Saraûaîa: I'm tired, I'm sleepy. Enough! Don't wake me up!

Gabriel Soares de Sousa
w:Gabriel Soares de Sousa

Noticia do Brasil
w:pt:Notícia do Brasil

bat (any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera)


a'y

Nheengatu: aí

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: aí, aígue
→ English: ai

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aʔi, from Proto-Tupian *aʔi.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní a'i.

Coordinate term: una'u

brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus)


kanindé

Nheengatu: kanindé

desc

Brazilian Portuguese: → canindé, → Cananéia, ⇒ arara-canindé

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kanine
Cognate with Guaraní kaninde.

inh+

blue-and-yellow macaw
blue-and-yellow macaw


ararakanga

Nheengatu: ararakanga

→ New Latin: aracanga (learned)

→ English: aracanga (learned)

desctree

→ Portuguese: araracanga
→ English: araracanga

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ararakaŋ. By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) + akanga (“head”).


araruna

Nheengatu: araruna, arara-una

→ Portuguese: araruna, araraúna

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ararun. By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) + un (“dark”) + -a.

surf

Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus
Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus#Translingual

hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)


marakanã

Nheengatu: marakanã

→ Portuguese: maracanã

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *marakanã.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní marakana.


tukanusu

desc

→ Portuguese: tucanuçu, tucanaçu, tucano-açu, → tucano-grande (calque)

From tukana (“toucan”) + -usu (augmentative suffix).

af

João Capistrano de Abreu
w:João Capistrano de Abreu


tuindara

Nheengatu: suindara

→ Brazilian Portuguese: suindara

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡suinar.


urubutinga

/ʔuɾuβ̞uˈtĩŋa/

/ʔuɾuβ̞uˈtĩᵑɡa/

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruβutiŋ. By surface analysis, urubu (“vulture”) + ting (“white”) + -a.
Cognate with Guaraní yryvu tĩ.

surf

Sarcoramphus papa
Sarcoramphus papa#Translingual


gûasunĩ

Nheengatu: waxinĩ

→ Portuguese: guaxinim

Procyon cancrivorus
Procyon cancrivorus#Translingual

crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus)


kûatimundé

Nheengatu: kwatí-mundé

→ Portuguese: quatimundéu

→ English: coatimundi

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kʷatimone. By surface analysis, kûati (“coati”) + mundé (“deadfall trap”). Coati bands are composed of only females and young males. When these age, they are driven away from the group and become solitary, being easily caught in traps.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní kuati monde.


kûati

Nheengatu: kwatí

→ Portuguese: quati

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kʷati.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní kuaxi and Paraguayan Guaraní kuati.


gûyrapunga

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: araponga
→ English: araponga

[ɡʷɨ.ɾaˈpũ.ŋa]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨrapoŋ. By surface analysis, gûyrá (“bird”) + pong (“percussive”) + -a.
Cognate wirh Paraguayan Guaraní guyrapõ.

surf

bare-throated bellbird
bare-throated bellbird

bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis)


gûará

Nheengatu: wará

→ Portuguese: guará

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wara.

Eudocimus ruber
Eudocimus ruber#Translingual

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

w:True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

Pero de Magalhães Gândavo
w:pt:Pero de Magalhães Gândavo

Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil

Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
w:Historia Naturalis Brasiliae


gûará

Seta pé-pira ſeuaé
Nan[…]Kurema[…]Parati[…]Acara-pep[…]Acara-ouaſſou[…]Acara-bouten[…]Acara-miri[…]Ouara[…]Kamouroupouy-ouaſſou

1578, Jean de Léry, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, pages 348–349:

a fish of the family Cichlidae. Further details are uncertain.


îagûasinĩ

→ Portuguese: jaguacinim

îa‧gûa‧si‧nĩ


gûaraîuba

→ Portuguese: guarajuba

/ɣʷaɾaˈʒuβa/


gûyraîuba

→ Portuguese: guirajuba

/ɣʷɨɾaˈjuβa/

/ɣʷɨɾaˈʒuβa/

Guaruba guarouba
Guaruba guarouba#Translingual


gûariba

Nheengatu: wariwa

desctree

→ Portuguese: guariba
→ English: guariba
→ French: ouarine
→ English: ouarine
→ English: warine

[ɡʷaˈɾi.β̞a]

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wariβ.
Cognate with Guaraní guaryva.

howler monkey (any monkey in the genus Alouatta)


kabaru

Nheengatu: kawarú

Borrowed from Portuguese cavalo, from Old Galician-Portuguese cavalo, from Latin caballus.

etymon

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


yperu

Nheengatu: iperú

shark (fish of the superorder Selachimorpha)


îagûareté

Nheengatu: yawareté

→ Portuguese: jaguaretê

îa‧gûa‧re‧té

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawarete. By surface analysis, îagûara + eté.
Coagnate with Paraguayan Guaraní jaguarete and Urubú-Kaapor jawarete.

inh+

Xe iaguarete iporu

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:

Panthera onca
Panthera onca#Translingual


pirauruku

desctree

Nheengatu: pirarukú
→ Brazilian Portuguese: pirarucu
→ English: pirarucu
→ Japanese: ピラルクー
→ Paraguayan Guaraní: piraruku
→ Spanish: pirarucú

Etymology tree
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pira
Old Tupi pirá
Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲuku
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruku
Old Tupi uruku
Old Tupi pirauruku
From pirá (“fish”) + uruku (“achiote”).

etymon

(North Tupi, hapax) arapaima (Arapaima gigas)


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:


sûasu

Nheengatu: suasú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: suaçu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃɨ-wat͡ʃu, from Proto-Tupian *ɨt͡ʃɨ.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní guaxu and Guaraní guasu.

inh+

deer (any animal of the Cervidae family)


taîyby

head

taîyby (unpossessable, female equivalent sarigûeîa)


pirãîa

Nheengatu: piranha

desctree

→ Portuguese: piranha
→ English: piranha

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pirãj. By surface analysis, pirá (“fish”) + ãî (“toothed”) + -a.
Cognate with Guaraní pirãi.

surf

Gabriel Soares de Sousa
w:Gabriel Soares de Sousa

Noticia do Brasil
w:pt:Notícia do Brasil

piranha (any carnivorous freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae)


kûandu

→ Portuguese: cuandu

→ New Latin: coendou

→ English: coendou


apere'a

→ Portuguese: preá


agûaragûasu

→ Portuguese: aguaraçu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awarawat͡su. By surface analysis, agûará + -gûasu (augmentative suffix).
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní aguara guasu, aguarasu.

surf

Chrysocyon brachyurus
Chrysocyon brachyurus#Translingual


îu'iperereka

Nheengatu: perereka

→ Portuguese: perereca

From îu'i (“frog”) + pererek (“jumper”) + -a.


tatuûasu

Nheengatu: tatuwasú

→ Portuguese: tatu-açu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatuwat͡su. By surface analysis, tatu (“armadillo”) + -ûasu (“big”).
Cognate with Guaraní tatu guasu.


teîugûasu

Nheengatu: teyuwasú

desc

→ Portuguese: teiú-açu, teiú-guaçu, → teiú-gigante (calque)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tejuwat͡su. By surface analysis, teîú (“tegu”) + -gûasu (“big”).
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní teju guaxu.

surf

Argentine black and white tegu
Argentine black and white tegu

Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae)


teîú

Nheengatu: teyú

→ Portuguese: teiú

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

tegu (any lizard in the genera Tupinambis or Salvator)


îasanã

Nheengatu: yasanã

desctree

→ Portuguese: jaçanã
→ English: jacana
→ Finnish: jassana
→ Italian: jacana
→ Swedish: jaçana
→ Translingual: Jacana

Jacana jacana
Jacana jacana#Translingual


marakanãarara

Primolius maracana
Primolius maracana#Translingual


puraké

Nheengatu: puraké

→ Brazilian Portuguese: poraquê

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *purake.
Compare Paraguayan Guaraní porake.

inh+

Electrophorus electricus
Electrophorus electricus#Translingual

(North Tupi, hapax) electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)


aîurueté

desc

Brazilian Portuguese: → ajuruetê, → papagaio-verdadeiro (calque)

a‧îu‧ru‧e‧té

From aîuru (“amazon parrot”) + eté (“true”).

Amazona aestiva
Amazona aestiva#Translingual

turquoise-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva)


aîuru

→ Brazilian Portuguese: ajuru


aîká

dolphin (carnivorous aquatic mammal in one of several families of order Cetacea)


mboîpeba

Nheengatu: buya-pewa

Portuguese: → boipeva, → cobra-chata (calque)

From mboîa (“snake”) + peb (“flat”) + -a. The snake flattens its body when threatened.


tatupeba

→ Portuguese: tatupeba

From tatu (“armadillo”) + peb (“flat”) + -a.

six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)


tatueté

Nheengatu: tatueté

Brazilian Portuguese: → tatuetê, → tatu-verdadeiro (calque)

nine-banded armadillo
nine-banded armadillo

Dasypus novemcinctus
Dasypus novemcinctus#Translingual

nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)


tatu'i

Nheengatu: tatuí

→ Brazilian Portuguese: tatuí

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tatuʔi. By surface analysis, tatu (“armadillo”) + -'i (dimminutive suffix).
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tatu'i

surf

Dasypus septemcinctus
Dasypus septemcinctus#Translingual

seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus)


tatugûaxima

→ Brazilian Portuguese: tatuxima

greater naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous tatouay)


gûamaîakugûará

→ Brazilian Portuguese: baiacu-ará


tatuapara

Nheengatu: tatú-apara

→ Brazilian Portuguese: tatuapara

From tatu (“armadillo”) + apar (“curved”) + -a.

af

Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes trincinctus)


taîasu

head

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

w:True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

white-lipped peccary
white-lipped peccary

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual

Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
w:Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

(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:


mboîoby

→ Brazilian Portuguese: boiobi, boiubu

[ᵐbɔ.jɔˈβ̞ɨ]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mojoβɨ.
Cognate with Guaraní mbói hovy.

Lichtenstein's green racer (Philodryas olfersii)


sûasuapara

Nheengatu: suasú-apara

→ Brazilian Portuguese: suaçuapara

From sûasu (“deer”) + apar (“bent”) + -a.

a species of South American deer with big antlers. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:


sûasuarana

Nheengatu: suasuarana

desc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: suaçurana, Suassurana

Puma concolor
Puma concolor#Translingual


sûasupytanga

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?]. By surface analysis, sûasu (“deer”) + pytang (“reddish”) + -a.
Cognate with Guaraní guasu pytã.


sûasutinga

Nheengatu: suasú-tinga

→ Brazilian Portuguese: suaçutinga

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?]. By surface analysis, sûasu (“deer”) + ting (“white”) + -a.
Cognate with Guaraní guasu tĩ.


îagûapopeba

From îagûara (“carnivoran”) + pó (“hand”) + peb (“flat”) + -a.
Possibly cognate with Guaraní jagua pe.


miaratakaka

desc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jaritataca, maritacaca

c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 44; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

Come, you stinky, nasty thing, stingless bee, skunk, leech, mantis shrimp!

striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus)


sarigûeîa

head

sarigûeîa (unpossessable, male equivalent taîyby)

Nheengatu: sariwé

→ Brazilian Portuguese: saruê

Meronym: ambeaîó (“marsupium”)

Anjo. Baepe que tuj opica?
Andira ruâpee.
Panama, coipo guaiquica?
enero, cururu açica?
eri, carigueya e.
Ejori
baenẽ baepoxi
bora, miaratacaca
ceboi, tamarutaca
ſarau[aya] — Xepoeirai, xeropecij
auye, teume xemombaca.

female large American opossum (any mammal in the genus Didelphis)


îaku

Nheengatu: yakú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jacu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaku, from Proto-Tupian *waku.
Cognate with Guaraní jaku.

typical guan (any bird in the genus Penelope)


îagûaruna

Nheengatu: yawaruna

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Jaguaruna

From îagûara (“jaguar”) + un (“black”) + -a.

Panthera onca
Panthera onca#Translingual

black panther (melanistic colour variant of the jaguar (Panthera onca))


îupará

Nheengatu: yupará

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jupará


kereîûá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: crejoá

D. Aob querêjuâ coaracî çocé / Oberabae nungara, T. remimotara rupî / Acê moingoçára.

(Can we date this quote?), Antônio de Araújo, “Da criação do mundo, dos Anjos, & ſua cahida” (chapter II), in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon, page 37v:

D. Like banded cotinga clothes that shine more than the sun, that make us be in accordance with God's will.


aruanã

Nheengatu: arawanã

→ Brazilian Portuguese: aruanã

(North Tupi, hapax) silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)


pirapu'ã

Cognate with Guaraní pirapuã. By surface analysis, pirá (“fish”) + pu'am (“standing”).

surf

whale (any large marine mammal in infraorder Cetacea)


tuîuîu

Nheengatu: tuyuyú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: tuiuiú

Ciconia maguari
Ciconia maguari#Translingual


nhandugûasu

desc

Brazilian Portuguese: → nandu-guaçu, → nandu-grande (calque)

Cognate with Guaraní ñandu guasu. By surface analysis, nhandu (“rhea”) + -gûasu (“big”).

surf

Rhea americana
Rhea americana#Translingual


arasari

Nheengatu: arasarí

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: araçari
→ English: aracari

black-necked aracari (Pteroglossus aracari)


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

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sapukaj.


sapukaîa

Nheengatu: sapukaya

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


mbyryki

desctree

→ Portuguese: muriqui
→ English: muriqui

muriqui (any monkey of the genus Brachyteles)


îakurutu

Nheengatu: yakurutú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jacurutu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?].
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ñakurutũ.

South American great horned owl (Bubo virginianus nacurutu)


marakaîagûasu

Nheengatu: marakayawasú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: maracajá-açu

From marakaîá (“wild cat”) + -gûasu (augmentative suffix).

af

Leopardus pardalis
Leopardus pardalis#Translingual


bixana

head

bixana (?, female equivalent bixanakunhã)

desc

from alternative form <i class="Latn mention" lang="tpw">pixana</i>

Nheengatu: pixana (from alternative form pixana)


arerãîa

→ Brazilian Portuguese: ariranha

Pteronura brasiliensis
Pteronura brasiliensis#Translingual


pepó

Nheengatu: pepú

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


kuré

Nheengatu: kuri

(hapax) used by swineherds to call their pigs


tamûatá

Nheengatu: tamuatá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: tamuatá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tamoata.

inh+

armored catfish. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:


îakutinga

Nheengatu: yakú-tinga

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jacutinga
→ English: jacutinga

From îaku (“typical guan”) + ting (“white”) + -a.

af

Pipile jacutinga
Pipile jacutinga#Translingual

(South Tupi) jacutinga (Pipile jacutinga)


pitangûagûasu

Nheengatu: pitawãwasú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: pitanguá-açu


pitaûã

Nheengatu: pitawã

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: pitanguá
→ English: pitangua

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtawari.

etymon

boat-billed flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)


sapaîu

→ Brazilian Portuguese: sapaju

→ French: sapajou

sapajou. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include: