tamandûá

See also: tamandua, Tamandua, tamanduá, Tamanduá, and tamanduą

Old Tupi

tamandûá

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta.mãˈⁿdʷa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧ma‧ndûá

Noun

tamandûá (unpossessable)

1. anteater (any mammal in the suborder Vermilingua)
2. (strictly) giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)

   Synonym: tamandûagûasu

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 62; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

     Akó xe îubykarûera, tataûrana, tamandûá, xe îubyk benhẽ potá!!

     That is the one who strangled me, a stinging caterpillar, an anteater, wanting to strangle me again!

Derived terms

• tamandûa'i
• tamandûagûasu
• tamandûapeba
• tamandûapitinga

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: tamanduá
• → Portuguese: tamanduá

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tamandûá”, 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 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 257