# taîasu
## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ta.jaˈsu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: ta‧îa‧su
* Homophone: Taîasu

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tajat͡ʃu.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tajaxu.

#### Noun

taîasu (unpossessable, female equivalent taîasukunhã)
* collared peccary (Pecari tajacu)
    Synonyms: taîasupytá, taîtetu
* (Late Tupi, hapax) white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari)
    Synonyms: taîasuka'aygûara, taîasueté, taîasutirika
* (Late Tupi) domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica)
    Synonym: taîasugûaîa
** 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter LXVIII, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 167v, column 2, lines 27–28; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 313:Endete, derecemõ / ariama, tayaçu[Endé-te, nde resemõ / arinhama, taîasu]But you, chickens and pigs are plentiful.
** 1622, anonymous author, Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 76; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:Tajaçu remiuru.[Taîasu remi'uru.]Pig's trough.

##### Related terms

* taîasu rokaîa
* taîasua'yra
* taîasua'yrusu
* taîasueté
* taîasugûaîa
* taîasuka'aygûara
* taîasukunhã
* taîasupytá
* taîasutirika
* taîtetu

##### Descendants

* Nheengatu: tayasú
* → Brazilian Portuguese: taiaçu
* → Translingual: Tayassu, Pecari tajacu

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* taîaûasu

#### Noun

taîasu (?)
* The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
** a plant of the genus Xanthosoma
** a plant of the genus Ipomoea

### References

* ↑ Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXX, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Teygaſu [Taîasu]”
* ↑ André Thevet (1575) La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere: “4”
* ↑ Jean de Léry (1578) chapter X, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 155: “Taiaſſou [Taîasu]”
* ↑ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XXXVII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 249: “taiaçu [taîasu]”
* ↑ Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLI, 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] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 249: “Tayaſſou [Taîasu]”
* ↑ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter VII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 229: “Tajacu Caaigoara [taîasuka'aygûara]”
* ↑ Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter XXXVII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 162: “taiaçu [taîasu]”
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “taîasu”, 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 457, column 2
* Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 248–249