gûakary
Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gûakary (unpossessable)
- armored catfish. Further details are uncertain.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Christovão de Lisboa (c. 1631) Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão [History of Maranhão's animals and trees][1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon, page 175v
- Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter XIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 166: “Gvacari [Gûakary]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûakary”, 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 132, column 1