gûyrasapukaîusu

Old Tupi

gûyrasapukaîusu

Alternative forms

Historical spellings
VLB (1624)	guîraçapucayuçû

Etymology

From gûyrasapukaîa (“rooster”) +‎ -usu (augmentative suffix), literally “big rooster”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wɨˌɾa.sa.puˌka.juˈsu], [wɨˌɾa.sa.puˌka.ʒuˈsu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: gûy‧ra‧sa‧pu‧ka‧îu‧su

Noun

gûyrasapukaîusu (unpossessable)

1. (Late Tupi, hapax) turkey (any bird in the genus Meleagris)

References

• anonymous author (1622) “Galipauo. Perû”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 146: “Guîraçapucayuçû [Gûyrasapukaîusu]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûyrasapukaîusu”, 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 140, column 2