Where does “tapy'yîuna” come from?

tapy'yîuna (Old Tupi) comes from Old Tupi una, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

tapy'yîuna (Old Tupi): Black person

Definitions

  1. Black person

Ancestry of “tapy'yîuna”, step by step

tapy'yîuna traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Tupi una

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

via Old Tupi tapuîa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupitapuîaa non-Tupi Native American
2Proto-Tupi-Guarani*tapiɨj—

Words derived from “tapy'yîuna”

Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →
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