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nhandu

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

îandu, nhandy

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɲãˈⁿdu]
Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: nha‧ndu

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.

Noun

nhandu (unpossessable)

greater rhea (Rhea americana)^[1]^[2]
Synonym: nhandugûasu

Related terms

Descendants

→ Portuguese: nandu, nhandu

Etymology 2

Noun

nhandu (unpossessable)

cake bush (Piper marginatum)^[3]

Descendants

→ Portuguese: nhandu

References

^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, 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 242: “Yandou [Îandu]”
^ anonymous author (1622) “Ema, aue”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 110: “Nhãdû [Nhandu]”
^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XIII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 75: “Nhamdu [Nhandu]”

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “nhandu”, 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 334, column 1
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 268

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɲɐ̃ˈdu/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɲɐ̃ˈdu/

Noun

nhandu m (plural nhandus)

Alternative form of nandu

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