Where does “copaiba” come from?

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

copaiba (English): Any of several South American trees of the genus...

Definitions

  1. Any of several South American trees of the genus...

Ancestry of “copaiba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupikopa'ybacopaiba tree
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix

Words derived from “copaiba”

Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi kopa'yba →