tuindara

Old Tupi

tuindara (Tyto furcata)

Alternative forms

• suindara

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡suinar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuĩˈⁿdara/

Noun

tuindara (unpossessable)

1. American barn owl (Tyto furcata)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: suindara
• → Brazilian Portuguese: suindara, suinara, suindá, tuindara, tuindá

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Curuja”, 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 88: “Çuindara. Tuindara. [Suindara. Tuindara]”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter X (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 205: “Tvindara [Tuindara]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tuindara”, 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 481, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 268