pavo

• “The turkey was first seen by the Spanish in Mexico around 1518, and they named it with variants on the word pavo, “pea fowl.””

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “Several centuries ago, it is recorded that any fisherman on Lake Texcoco, near Mexico City, who saw a White Pelican, locally called a pavo del agua (water turkey) or corazón de la laguna (heart of the lagoon) had just four days in which to catch it.”

  Did you know? Mexico's largest bird is the American White Pelican

• “Simple nouns such as pavo, pato, taza, tiza are easily found in any bi-lingual dictionary, and their definitions aren't ambiguous.”

  The Scarlet Letter (another word game)

• “There was a quaintness, too, mingled with all this revelry, that gave it a peculiar zest: it was suited to the time and place; and as the old manor-house almost reeled with mirth and wassail, it seemed echoing back the joviality of long departed years. 40 (2) 39 Sir John Hawkins, speaking of the dance called the Pavon, from pavo, a peacock, says,”

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

• “_Item_, we had a huge _pavo_, a turkey, -- a wild turkey; and then, for the first time, did”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865

• “(Ix year) "Y degollavan la gallina ... a la estatua de _Kac-u-Uayeyab_ ofrescian una cabeça de un pavo, y empanados de codornices y otras coasa [TN-11] y su bevida.”

  Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

• “Rhenique nodos aureamque nitellam; fragravit ore quod rosarium Paesti, quod Atticarum prima mella cerarum, quod sucinorum rapta de manu gleba; cui conparatus indecens erat pavo, inamabilis sciurus et frequens phoenix, adhuc recenti tepet Erotion busto, quam pessimorum lex amara fatorum sexta peregit hieme, nec tamen tota, nostros amores gaudiumque lususque.”

  Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

• “The peacock was once the Poe, an early loan from Lat. pavo, or, more fully, Pocock”

  The Romance of Names

• “The simple Poe, Lat. pavo, has the same meaning (Chapter XXIII).”

  The Romance of Names

• “Among the nobler and statelier dances in vogue at the court of the Tudors, were the Pavan (from _pavo_, a peacock), with the Galliard”

  A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character

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