eîrara

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === irara === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar. By surface analysis, eíra (“honey”) +‎ ar (“to take”) +‎ -a, literally “honey taker”. Cognate with Guarayu eirar and Paraguayan Guarani eira. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ɛjˈɾa.ɾa] Rhymes: -aɾa Hyphenation: eî‧ra‧ra === Noun === eîrara (unpossessable) tayra (Eira barbara) ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: irara Portuguese: → irara, → papa-mel (calque) ⇒? English: tayra === References === André Thevet (1575), chapter XIII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d'André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 940: “Heirat [Eîrar[a]]” André Thevet (1557–1558), chapter 51, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 98v: “Heyrat [Eîrar[a]]” === Further reading === Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 250, line 14