kaûã

Old Tupi

kaûã (Herpetotheres cachinnans)

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
  • → English: acauã
• → Brazilian Portuguese: Cauã, Cauê, Kauã, Kauan, Kawan

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kaûã”, 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 225, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 262