Where does “tipiima” come from?

tipiima (Nheengatu) comes from Old Tupi ypye'yma, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

tipiima (Nheengatu): shallow

Definitions

  1. shallow

Ancestry of “tipiima”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupiypye'ymashallow
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi ypye'yma →