marakaîagûasu

Old Tupi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma.ɾa.kaˌja.ɡʷaˈsu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ka‧îa‧gûa‧su
• Homophone: Marakaîagûasu

Noun

marakaîagûasu (unpossessable)

1. (Língua Geral Amazônica) ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

   Synonym: *îagûatyryka

Usage notes

• In Old Tupi, the term is only attested through the name of the temiminó leader Marakaîagûasu. For the animal, the first register is from the 19th century, in Língua Geral Amazônica.

Coordinate terms

• (felids) îagûara (îagûarakangusu, îagûareté, *îagûaruna, îagûarusu), marakaîá (bixana, *îagûatyryka, marakaîaeté, marakaîagûasu, marakaîamimbaba, marakaîamirĩ), sûasuarana (îagûapytangusu)

Derived terms

• Marakaîagûasu

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: marakayawasú
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: maracajá-açu

References

• José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “jaguatirica”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 151: “MARACAJA’ GUASSU [Marakaîagûasu]”
• 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