tamandûa'i

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tamanuʔaʔi. By surface analysis, tamandûá (“anteater”) +‎ -'ĩ (diminutive suffix). === Noun === tamandûa'i (unpossessable) (hapax legomenon) southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: tamanduaí→ Brazilian Portuguese: tamanduaí === Further reading === Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “tamandûa'i”, 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 460, column 1