marakaîagûasu

== Old Tupi == === Etymology === From marakaîá (“wild cat”) +‎ -gûasu (augmentative suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ma.ɾa.kaˌja.ɡʷaˈsu] Rhymes: -u Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ka‧îa‧gûa‧su Homophone: Marakaîagûasu === Noun === marakaîagûasu (unpossessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica) ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) Synonym: *îagûatyryka ==== Usage notes ==== In Old Tupi, the term is only attested through the name of the temiminó leader Marakaîagûasu. For the animal, the first register is from the 19th century, in Língua Geral Amazônica. ==== Coordinate terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: marakayawasú → Brazilian Portuguese: maracajá-açu === References === José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “jaguatirica”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, July 1936, page 151: “MARACAJA’ GUASSU [Marakaîagûasu]” 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