urubitinga

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Old Tupi

Etymology

    From urubu (vulture) +‎ -'ĩ (diminutive suffix) +‎ ting (white) +‎ -a (nominalizer suffix).

    Noun

    urubitinga (unpossessable)

    1. (hapax legomenon) great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga)

    Descendants

    • Translingual: Buteogallus urubitinga

    References

    1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “urubitinga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 501, column 2