urubitinga

Old Tupi

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Tupian *urupˀu
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruβu
    Old Tupi urubu
    Old Tupi -'ĩ
    Old Tupi ting
    Proto-Tupian *-ap
    Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?
    Old Tupi -a
    Old Tupi urubitinga

    From urubu (“vulture”) +‎ -'ĩ (diminutive suffix) +‎ ting (“white”) +‎ -a (nominalizer suffix).[1]

    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 [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 501, column 2
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