îagûara

Old Tupi

îagûara (sense 1)

îagûara (sense 2)

Alternative forms

îaûara

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawar.[1][2]

Cognate with Guaraní jagua.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jaˈɡwa.ɾa/, [jaˈɡʷa.ɾa]
Rhymes: -aɾa
Hyphenation: îa‧gûa‧ra

Noun

îagûara (unpossessable)

jaguar (Panthera onca)
Synonym: îagûareté
(Late Tupi) dog (Canis familiaris)
Synonyms: eîmbaba îagûara, îagûamimbaba
(broadly) carnivoran
îagûapopeba ― river otter (literally, “flat-footed jaguar”)
Venus; Evening Star
Synonym: îasytatagûasu

Usage notes

With the advent of colonization, Tupians used the names of similar native animals to call the unknown species brought by the Europeans. Neologisms were then created by using eté (“true”) and eîmbaba／mimbaba (“domestic animal”) as a form to differentiate the old and new species, respectively.

Coordinate terms

(canids) agûará/agûaragûasu, îagûapytanga, îagûara/îagûamimbaba
(felids) îagûara (îagûarakangusu, îagûareté, îagûaruna, îagûarusu), marakaîá (marakaîaeté, marakaîagûasu, marakaîamimbaba, marakaîamirĩ), sûasuarana/îagûapytangusu

Derived terms

îagûapopeba
îagûapytanga
îagûarakangusu
îagûarana
îagûarapeba
îagûarema
îagûaresá
îagûareté
*îagûaruna
îagûarusu
Îagûatinga

Descendants

Nheengatu: yawara
→ English: jaguar
→ French: jaguar
→? Latvian: jaguārs
Portuguese: → jaguara, →? jaguar
→? Spanish: jaguar

References

Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
Miriam Lemle (1971) “Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family”, in David Bendor-Samuel, editor, Tupi Studies (SIL Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields; 29)‎, volume I, Norman: SIL of the University of Oklahoma

“Onça, ou tigre”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (in Portuguese), Piratininga, 1622; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 56
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îagûara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil‎ (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 153–154

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