Marakaîagûasu
Old Tupi
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Etymology
[edit]From marakaîagûasu (“ocelot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): [ma.ɾa.ka.ja.waˈsu], [ma.ɾa.ka.ʒa.waˈsu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: Ma‧ra‧ka‧îa‧gûa‧su
- Homophone: marakaîagûasu
Proper noun
[edit]Marakaîagûasu
- a male given name
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: Maracajá-Guaçu (learned)
References
[edit]- André Thevet (1575) chapter V, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 916v: “Maragata-ounaſſou [Marakaîagûasu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Marakaîagûasu”, 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 261, column 2