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Old Tupi
Etymology
From pitaûã + -gûasu.
Noun
pitangûagûasu (unpossessable)
- great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
Descendants
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