kaûã

Old Tupi

    Alternative forms

    • ûakaûã

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kaˈwã/
    • Rhymes: -ã
    • Hyphenation: ka‧ûã

    Noun

    kaûã (unpossessable)

    1. (North Tupi) laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)
      • Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 234: “Oacaoam [Ûakaûã]”
      • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 233: “Chouä [Kaûã]”

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: wakawã
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: acauã, acuã, cauã, uacauã
    • → Brazilian Portuguese: Cauã, Cauê, Kauã, Kauan, Kawan

    References

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