Where does “teyupuya” come from?

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

teyupuya (Nheengatu): All Souls' Day

Definitions

  1. All Souls' Day

Ancestry of “teyupuya”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old TupitybypoîaAll Souls' Day
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Old Tupipóhand
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
5Proto-Tupian*pohand
Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →