tapi'ira

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiʔir. Cognate with Guajajára tapi'ir and Mbya Guarani tapi'i. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ta.piˈʔi.ɾa] Rhymes: -iɾa Hyphenation: ta‧pi‧'i‧ra === Noun === tapi'ira (unpossessable) tapir (Tapirus terrestris) Synonyms: tapi'ireté, tapi'irusu (Late Tupi) cattle (Bos taurus) Synonym: tapi'irusu tapi'ikaba ― cow fat ==== 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 eŷmbaba / mimbaba (“domestic animal”) as a form to differentiate the old and new species, respectively. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “tapi'ira”, 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, pages 462–463 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 252