Talk:anhima

@-sche, the OED says this word comes from "Tupi" — can you figure out if that's right, and if so, if they mean Old Tupi? (Bonus points go for explaining Portuguese anhuma.) —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:10, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

The sources I see say it means "black bird", and the "tupi" forms they provide explain why there's so much variation in the vowels borrower languages use (anhima, anhuma, aniuma, inhuma): one says it's from "tupi nhäum ave preta", another says "tupi ña'um ave preta", a third says nhã um. However, I haven't seen a source mentioning the term that makes the fine distinctions between Tupi varieties that we do. :/ (We have the Old Tupi forms for "black bird" as ~"nha(n) un(a)".) - -sche (discuss) 22:52, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you... as usual, I'm not sure how to incorporate this into the entries. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 03:51, 9 August 2017 (UTC)