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Where does “fufu” come from?

fufu (Kongo) comes from Proto-Bantu *pʊ̀pʊ̀.

Ancestry of “fufu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Bantu*pʊ̀pʊ̀—
Every word from Proto-Bantu *pʊ̀pʊ̀ →