Reconstruction:Old Tupi/îagûatyryka

This Old Tupi entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Tupi

Etymology

    From îagûara (“jaguar”) +‎ tyryk (“skittish”) +‎ -a.[1]

    Noun

    *îagûatyryka (unpossessable) (Língua Geral Paulista)

    1. ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: jaguatirica

    References

    1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “tyryka”, 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 488, column 1
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.