English
acauã
Acauã comes from Old Tupi kaûã ‘laughing falcon’.
- Old Tupimodernkaûã‘laughing falcon’
- Englishearliest quotation 1984acauã
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Tupimodernkaûã‘laughing falcon’
- Englishearliest quotation 1984acauã
Earliest quotation: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World: “There were so many of them that there were…”
Every English word from Old Tupi kaûã
Today it means
noun Synonym of laughing falcon.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Tupi kaûã / acauã