gûyratinga

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === ûyratinga === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨratiŋ. By surface analysis, gûyrá (“bird”) +‎ ting (“white”) +‎ -a. Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani guyratĩ. === Noun === gûyratinga (unpossessable) great egret (Ardea alba egretta) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gûyrá,‎ tinga. ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: wirá-tinga → Brazilian Portuguese: Guiratinga === References === === Further reading === 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 260