tukanusu

== Old Tupi == === Etymology === From tukana (“toco toucan”) +‎ -usu (augmentative suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [tu.kã.nuˈsu] Rhymes: -u Hyphenation: tu‧ka‧nu‧su === Noun === tukanusu (unpossessable) toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) Synonym: tukana (North Tupi, now historical) a non-Tupian tribe that lived in Northeast Brazil ==== Descendants ==== → Portuguese: tucanuçu, tucanaçu, tucano-açu, → tucano-grande (calque) === References === === Further reading === Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “tukanusu”, 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 482, column 1