sabîaúna

Old Tupi

Etymology

  • From sabîá (“thrush”) +‎ un (“black”) +‎ -a.[1]

    Noun

    sabîaúna (unpossessable)

    1. (hapax legomenon) yellow-legged thrush (Turdus flavipes)[2]
      • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter LXXXIX, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 237:
        Sabiáuna são uns passarinhos pretos que andam sempre entre arvoredo; comem frutas e bichinhos, criam nas arvores em ninhos de palha.
        “Sabîaúna” are some black birds that are always among the trees; they eat fruits and bugs, have their chicks on the trees, inside straw nests.]

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: sabiá-una, sabiaúna, Sabaúna

    References

    1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “sabîaúna”, 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 435, column 2
    2. ^ Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 265, line 145
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