yperu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

iperu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɨ.pɛˈɾu]
Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: y‧pe‧ru

Noun

yperu (unpossessable)

shark (fish of the superorder Selachimorpha)

Derived terms

Descendants

Nheengatu: iperú

References

Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXII, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Ipperu Waſu [Iperuûasu]”
André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 67, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 133r: “Houperou [Yperu]”
Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CXXVIII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 281: “Uperu [Yperu]”
anonymous author (1622) “Tubarão”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 138: “Yperû [Iperu]”
Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book IV, chapter XV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 172: “Iperv [Iperu]”
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “yperu”, 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 530, 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 284