kaûã

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Old Tupi

    kaûã (Herpetotheres cachinnans)

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    • IPA(key): /kaˈwã/
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    • Hyphenation: ka‧ûã

    Noun

    kaûã (unpossessable)

    1. (North Tupi) laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)
      • Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXV, 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 234:Oacaoam [Ûakaûã]
      • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 233:Chouä [Kaûã]

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