pitaûã

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• *pitangûá

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtawari.

Noun

pitaûã (unpossessable)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
   2. lesser kiskadee (Philohydor lictor)
   3. boat-billed flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)

Related terms

• pitangûagûasu

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pitawã
• → Brazilian Portuguese: pitanguá
  • → English: pitangua

References

• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXIV, 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 231: “Pitaoão [Pitaûã]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pitaûá”, 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 389, column 1