nhandugûasu

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === nhandygûasu === Etymology 1 === Cognate with Guarani. By surface analysis, nhandu (“rhea”) +‎ -gûasu (“big”). ==== Noun ==== nhandugûasu (unpossessable) greater rhea (Rhea americana) Synonym: nhandu ===== Descendants ===== Brazilian Portuguese: → nandu-guaçu, → nandu-grande (calque) === Etymology 2 === By surface analysis, nhandu (“spider”) +‎ -gûasu (“big”). ==== Noun ==== nhandugûasu (unpossessable) tarantula (any spider of the family Theraphosidae) === References === Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “nhandugûasu”, 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 334, columns 1–2 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, pages 268 and 289