Where does “sabiá-una” come from?

sabiá-una (Portuguese) comes from Old Tupi sabîaúna, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

sabiá-una (Portuguese): yellow-legged thrush

Definitions

  1. yellow-legged thrush

Ancestry of “sabiá-una”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupisabîaúnayellow-legged thrush
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi sabîaúna →