Where does “yawareté-pinima” come from?

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

yawareté-pinima (Nheengatu): jaguar

Definitions

  1. jaguar

Ancestry of “yawareté-pinima”, step by step

yawareté-pinima traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Nheengatu pinima

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Nheengatupinimafreckly; spotted
2Old Tupipinimaspot
3Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix

via Nheengatu yawareté

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Nheengatuyawareté—
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi pinima →