Where does “kopa'yba” come from?

kopa'yba (Old Tupi) comes from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

kopa'yba (Old Tupi): copaiba tree

Definitions

  1. copaiba tree

Ancestry of “kopa'yba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
2Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix

Words derived from “kopa'yba”

Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →
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