Where does “kuîmbuka” come from?

kuîmbuka (Old Tupi) comes from Old Tupi kuîa, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

kuîmbuka (Old Tupi): bowl

Definitions

  1. bowl

Ancestry of “kuîmbuka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupikuîacalabash
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Old Tupihand
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
5Proto-Tupian*pohand

Words derived from “kuîmbuka

Every word from Proto-Tupian *poEvery word from Old Tupi -aEvery word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po