Where does “lobo-guará” come from?

lobo-guará (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese lobo, from Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus, from Proto-Italic lukʷos, from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos — wolf.

lobo-guará (Portuguese): maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

Definitions

  1. maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

Ancestry of “lobo-guará”, step by step

lobo-guará traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Portuguese lobo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueselobowolf; lobe
2Old Portugueselobo—
3Latinlupuswolf; an animal which acts in the savage manner...
4Proto-Italiclukʷos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwĺ̥kʷoswolf

via Old Tupi agûará

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupiagûarámaned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
2Proto-Tupi-Guarani*awara—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wĺ̥kʷos →Every word from Proto-Italic lukʷos →Every word from Latin lupus →