Where does “mboîa” come from?

mboîa (Old Tupi) comes from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *moj, from Proto-Tupian *moj.

mboîa (Old Tupi): snake

Definitions

  1. snake

Ancestry of “mboîa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Tupi-Guarani*mojsnake
2Proto-Tupian*moj—

Words derived from “mboîa”

Every word from Proto-Tupian *moj →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *moj →
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