îakurutu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• îukurutu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?].

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ñakurutũ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ja.ku.ɾuˈtu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: îa‧ku‧ru‧tu

Noun

îakurutu (unpossessable)

1. South American great horned owl (Bubo virginianus nacurutu)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: yakurutú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: jacurutu, jucurutu

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXVI, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 233: “Jucurutú [Îukurutu]”
• Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Dos passaros q' andaõ de noite”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6)‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 10, line 1465: “Jacuritu [Îakurutu]”
• anonymous author (1622) “Bufo, passaro”, 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 60: “Jacurutû [Îakurutu]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) chapter V, in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], volume V (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 199: “Iacvrvtv [Îakurutu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îakurutu”, 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 156, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus [16th century catalogue of the Brazilian coast's fauna as documented by European authors]”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 268