eîrara

Old Tupi

eîrara

Alternative forms

• irara

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupian *ewit

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eir

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ar

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar

Proto-Tupian *-ap

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?

Old Tupi -a

Old Tupi eîrara

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar + Old Tupi -a. By surface analysis, eíra (“honey”) +‎ ar (“to drink”) +‎ -a, literally “honey drinker”.

Cognate with Guarayu eirar and Guaraní eira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɛjˈɾa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Hyphenation: eî‧ra‧ra

Noun

eîrara (unpossessable)

1. tayra (Eira barbara)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: irara
• Portuguese: → irara, → papa-mel (calque)
• ⇒? English: tayra

References

• André Thevet (1575) chapter XIII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 940: “Heirat [Eîrar[a]]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “eîrara”, 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 91, column 2
• 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 250