Where does “Kunhambeba” come from?
Kunhambeba (Old Tupi) comes from French PEB, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.
Ancestry of “Kunhambeba”, step by step
Kunhambeba traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French PEB
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | PEB | a system enabling a library to borrow a document... |
| 2 | Old Tupi | -a | forms nouns from a word's stem |
| 3 | Old Tupi | pó | hand |
| 4 | Proto-Tupi-Guarani | *po | hand |
| 5 | Proto-Tupian | *po | hand |
via Old Tupi kunhã
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Tupi | kunhã | woman, especially an indigenous woman from the Americas |