îaku

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaku, from Proto-Tupian *waku.

Cognate with Guaraní jaku.

• IPA^(key): [jaˈku]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: îa‧ku

îaku (unpossessable)

1. typical guan (any bird in the genus Penelope)

• Nheengatu: yakú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: jacu

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îaku”, 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 156, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 262