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START / NODE 347Present-Day English1604–today
jaguar
English jaguar, recorded by 1604, came through Portuguese from Tupi jawára, whose range was broader than the modern zoological species label.
“Jaguar is an Indigenous Brazilian word carried through Portuguese; English narrowed a broader Tupi large-carnivore name into one zoological species.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishjaguar
the large American cat Panthera onca
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Portuguese · Portuguesejaguarjaguar
- SOUND CHANGE
- Portuguese jaguar entered English with pronunciation adapted to English patterns.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The large-cat referent continued into English.
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- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Merriam-Webster explicitly gives Portuguese as the immediate source.
- CHRONOLOGY
- English record by 1604.
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