îakutinga

From îaku (“typical guan”) +‎ ting (“white”) +‎ -a.

îakutinga (unpossessable)

1. (South Tupi) jacutinga (Pipile jacutinga)

• Nheengatu: yakú-tinga
• → Brazilian Portuguese: jacutinga
  • → English: jacutinga

• Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XI, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 169: “Iacoutin [Îakutinga]”
• Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Galinhas”, 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 53; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 135, line 1388: “Jacutĩga [Îakutinga]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îakutinga”, 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 157, 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