îakurutu

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani .

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ñakurutũ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: îa‧ku‧ru‧tu

Noun

îakurutu (unpossessable)

  1. South American great horned owl (Bubo virginianus nacurutu)
    • Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXVI, 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 233:Jucurutú [Îukurutu]
    • Francisco Soares (15901596) “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), page 56; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 141, 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) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter V (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 199:Iacvrvtv [Îakurutu]

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: yakurutú
  • Brazilian Portuguese: jacurutu, jucurutu

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