Where does “puranga” come from?

puranga (Nheengatu) comes from Old Tupi poranga, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

puranga (Nheengatu): beautiful

Definitions

  1. beautiful

Ancestry of “puranga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupiporangabeauty
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Old Tupipóhand
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
5Proto-Tupian*pohand

Words derived from “puranga”

Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →