Where does “mãîa” come from?

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

mãîa (Old Tupi): mother

Definitions

  1. mother

Ancestry of “mãîa”, step by step

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

Words derived from “mãîa”

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