Where does “tatú” come from?

tatú (Nheengatu) comes from Old Tupi tatu, from French PEB, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

tatú (Nheengatu): armadillo

Definitions

  1. armadillo

Ancestry of “tatú”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupitatuarmadillo
2FrenchPEBa system enabling a library to borrow a document...
3Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
4Old Tupipóhand
5Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
6Proto-Tupian*pohand
Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →