Where does “tapi'i” come from?

tapi'i (Mbyá Guaraní) comes from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiʔir — tapir.

Ancestry of “tapi'i”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Tupi-Guarani*tapiʔirtapir
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tapiʔir
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