tukanusu
Old Tupi
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Etymology
editFrom tukana (“toucan”) + -usu (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittukanusu (unpossessable)
- toco toucan (Ramphastos toco)[1]
- Synonym: tukana
- (North Tupi, now historical) a non-Tupian tribe that lived in Northeast Brazil[2]
Descendants
edit- → Portuguese: tucanuçu, tucanaçu, tucano-açu, → tucano-grande (calque)
References
edit- ^ Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão (1618) “Dialogo quinto”, in Diálogos das Grandezas do Brasil [Dialogues of Brazil's Greatnesses]; republished as João Capistrano de Abreu, Rodolpho Garcia, compilers, Rio de Janeiro: Officina Industrial Graphica, 1930, page 220: “Tucanoçú [Tukanusu]”
- ^ Joannes de Laet (1633) chapter III, in Novus orbis ſeu Descriptionis Indiæ Occidentalis, volume XV, page 547: “Tucanucos [Tukanusu]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tukanusu”, 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 482, column 1