Where does “pirapanema” come from?

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

pirapanema (Old Tupi): morning star; Mercury

Definitions

  1. morning star; Mercury

Ancestry of “pirapanema”, step by step

pirapanema traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Tupi panema

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupipanemaunfortunate, unfavourable; unproductive; useless
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Old Tupipóhand
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
5Proto-Tupian*pohand

via Old Tupi pirá

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupipiráfish
2Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pirafish
Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →