pitangûagûasu

Old Tupi

Etymology

From pitaûã + -gûasu.

Noun

pitangûagûasu (unpossessable)

1. great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pitawãwasú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: pitanguá-açu

References

• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter XIV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 216: “Pitangva gvacv [Pitangûagûasu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pitangûagûasu”, 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