îakurutu

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) jacurutû
Marcgrave (1648) iacurutu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?]. Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ñakurutũ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ja.ku.ɾuˈtu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: îa‧ku‧ru‧tu

Noun

îakurutu (unpossessable)

  1. South American great horned owl (Bubo virginianus nacurutu)[1]
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter LXXXVI, 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 233:
      Jucurutú é uma ave tamanha como um frango, que em povoado anda de noite pelos telhados; e no mato cria em tocas de arvores grandes, e anda ao longo dos caminhos; e aonde quer que está, toda a noite está gritando pelo seu nome. Esta ave é de côr brancacenta, tem as pernas curtas, a cabeça grande com tres listas pardas por ella que parecem cutiladas, e duas pennas n’ella de feição de orelhas.
      “Îukurutu” is a bird the size of a chicken, that walks on the roofs on the villages and lives inside hollows of large trees in the wild, going along the paths; and wherever it is, it's crying its name all night long. This bird is whitish, has short legs, a large head with three stripes that look like cleaver marks, and two feathers on it looking like ears.]
    • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, 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] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 240:
      L'on y voit les Ioucouroutou quiſont grands commeles Oyes; Ils ont le plumagetout rouge meſlé de noir: Ils criẽt auſſi la nuict […] .
      We can see the “îukurutu”, which are as large as geese; their plumage is red mixed with black. They also cry at night […] ]
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter V (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 199:
      Iacvrvtv Braſilienſibus, Bufo Luſitanis, Noctua eſt […]
      “Îakurutu” from Brazil, “Bufo” for the Portuguese; it's an owl.]

Derived terms

  • Îakurutu

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: yakurutú
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: jacurutu, jucurutu, inhacurutu

References

  1. ^ 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 268, line 176
  • Francisco Soares (1590–1596), “Dos passaros q' andaõ de noite”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 56; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: INL, 1966, page 141, line 1465: “Jacuritu [Îakurutu]”
  • anonymous author (1622), “Bufo, passaro [Owl, bird]”, 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 60: “Jacurutû [Îakurutu]”

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