migûá
Old Tupi
migûá
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [miˈɡʷa]
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: mi‧gûá
Noun
migûá (unpossessable)
- neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)
- 1622, “Coruo marinho”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 83; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
- Miguâ.
- [Migûá.]
Derived terms
- migûaîuba
Descendants
- Nheengatu: miwá
- → Portuguese: biguá
- → Dutch: bigua-aalscholver
References
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “migûá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 279, column 1
- Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, , →ISBN, →ISSN, page 265
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