nhandu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • îandu, nhandy

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɲãˈⁿdu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: nha‧ndu

Etymology 1

  • Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.

    Noun

    nhandu (unpossessable)

    1. greater rhea (Rhea americana)[1]
      Synonym: nhandugûasu
      • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 242:
        […] l'Yandou eſpece d'Autruche […]
        The “îandu”, a kind of ostrich.]
    Descendants
    • → Portuguese: nandu, nhandu

    Etymology 2

  • Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.

    Noun

    nhandu (unpossessable)

    1. (only attested in Língua Geral Amazônica) spider (any arthropod of the order Araneae)[2][3][4][5][6]
    Usage notes

    Despite the various cognates and its presence in compounds, the term is only attested by itself in the 18th century.

    Descendants

    Etymology 3

    Unknown.

    Noun

    nhandu (unpossessable)

    1. cake bush (Piper marginatum)[7]
      • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XIII (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 75:
        Piper Cavdatvm, Betre quibuſdam Luſitanis; Nhamdu Braſilienſibus generali nomine: ſubfrutex eſt, inſtar arbuſculæ excreſcens ad trium, quatuor, quinque & interdum ſex pedum altitullinem.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Ema, aue [Rhea, bird]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 110: “Nhãdû [Nhandu]”
    2. ^ Arronches, João de (1739), “ARANHA”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 109: “jandú”
    3. ^ Frei Onofre (1751), “Aranha”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 14, column 2: “Jandû”
    4. ^ Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “aranha [spider]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 5r, column 2, line 2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 111: “nhandú […] jandú [nhandu […] îandu]”
    5. ^ anonymous author (c. 1757), “Aranha”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 18: “nhandú”
    6. ^ anonymous author (18th century), “Aranha”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎[1] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 24v: “Iandû”
    7. ^ 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 268

    Further reading

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation

    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɲɐ̃ˈdu/

    Noun

    nhandu m (plural nhandus)

    1. alternative form of nandu
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