Where does “pinima” come from?

pinima (Nheengatu) comes from Old Tupi pinima, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

pinima (Nheengatu): freckly; spotted

Definitions

  1. freckly; spotted

Ancestry of “pinima”, step by step

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

Words derived from “pinima”

Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi pinima →