takûara
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *takʷar + Old Tupi -a.
Noun
[edit]takûara (?)
- bamboo.[1][2] Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
- large arrow made of this bamboo[3]
Derived terms
[edit]Unidentified species
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ anonymous author (1622) “Cana brava, oca por dentro”, 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 65: “Tacoara [Takûara]”
- ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter X (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 278: “Tacoara [Takûara]”
- ^ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLIX, 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 289: “Tacouärt [Takûar[a]]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “takûara”, 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 459, column 1