Where does “cocoa” come from?

Cocoa derives from Spanish cacao, from Nahuatl cacahuatl, from Proto-Nahuan kakawatl, the name for the cacao tree and its beans.

cocoa (English): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of...

Definitions

  1. The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of...

Ancestry of “cocoa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishCacaothe 655th most common surname in Guatemala
2Classical Nahuatlcacahuatlcacao, cacao bean
3Proto-Nahuan*kakawa-

Words derived from “cocoa

Every word from Proto-Nahuan *kakawa-