tukanusu

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Old Tupi

tukana (Ramphastos toco)

Etymology

From tukana (“toucan”) +‎ -usu (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ka‧nu‧su

Noun

tukanusu (unpossessable)

  1. toco toucan (Ramphastos toco)[1]
    Synonym: tukana
  2. (North Tupi, now historical) a non-Tupian tribe that lived in Northeast Brazil[2][3]

Descendants

References

  1. ^ 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]”
  2. ^ Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § III (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1299: “Tucanucu [Tukanusu]”
  3. ^ Joannes de Laet (1633) chapter III, in Novus orbis ſeu Descriptionis Indiæ Occidentalis, volume XV, page 547: “Tucanucos [Tukanusu]”
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