Where does “pindá-yba” come from?

pindá-yba (Old Tupi) comes from Old Tupi pindá — fishhook.

pindá-yba (Old Tupi): a kind of plant whose stems were used as fishing...

Definitions

  1. a kind of plant whose stems were used as fishing...

Ancestry of “pindá-yba”, step by step

pindá-yba traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Tupi pindá

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupipindáfishhook

via Old Tupi yba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupiybaplant, tree
Every word from Old Tupi pindá