tukanusu

Old Tupi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tu.kã.nuˈsu]
  • 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]
    • [a. 1625, Fernão Cardim, “Da diversidade de nações e linguas”, in Narrativa epistolar (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 200:
      Alem destes, para o sertão e campos de Caátinga vivem muitas nações Tapuyas, que chamão Tucanuço, estes vivem no sertão do Rio Grande pelo direito de Porto Seguro […]
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Descendants

  • → Portuguese: tucanuçu, tucanaçu, tucano-açu, → tucano-grande (calque)

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. ^ Joannes de Laet (1633), chapter III, in Novus orbis ſeu Descriptionis Indiæ Occidentalis, volume XV, page 547: “Tucanucos [Tukanusu]”

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