jaguar dog 5 realizations MACROAREA: South America
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Guarani
lexeme jagua
meaning 1 (obsolete outside compounds) jaguar
direction
meaning 2 dog
reference Canese, Alcaraz 2016: 33, column 2
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jagua + ‎pytã (“red”) → ‎jaguapytã (“cougar”)

NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Mbyá Guaraní
lexeme jagua
meaning 1 (obsolete, now used only in fixed expressions) jaguar
direction
meaning 2 dog
reference English Wiktionary
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NEW Realization 3
type Polysemy
language Nheengatu
lexeme yawara
meaning 1 (obsolete, now only in compounds) jaguar
direction
meaning 2 dog
reference Avila 2021: 867
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NEW Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Old Tupian
lexeme îagûara
meaning 1 jaguar
direction
meaning 2 (Late Tupi) dog
reference Navarro 2013: 153–154
comment

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

Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP. page 249

NEW Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Xingu Asurini
lexeme djawara
meaning 1 jaguar
direction
meaning 2 domestic dog
reference <personally collected data>
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Müller, Regina Aparecida Polo (1990), Os Asuriní do Xingu: História e arte, Campinas: Unicamp,
Nicholson, Velda (1982), Breve estudo da língua asurini do Xingu (Ensaios Lingüísticos; 5), Brasília: SIL Global, page 3
Pereira, Antônia Alves (2009), Estudo morfossintático do Asurini do Xingu, Campinas: Unicamp