Where does “copaene” come from?

copaene (English) comes from English copaiba, from Old Tupi kopa'yba, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

copaene (English): An oily liquid hydrocarbon found in a number of...

Definitions

  1. An oily liquid hydrocarbon found in a number of...

Ancestry of “copaene”, step by step

copaene traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English copaiba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcopaibaAny of several South American trees of the genus...
2Old Tupikopa'ybacopaiba tree
3Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix

via English ene

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishene—
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi kopa'yba →
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