Where does “tatu” come from?

tatu (Old Tupi) comes from French PEB, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

tatu (Old Tupi): armadillo

Definitions

  1. armadillo

Ancestry of “tatu”, step by step

tatu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French PEB

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchPEBa system enabling a library to borrow a document...
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Old Tupipóhand
4Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
5Proto-Tupian*pohand

via Proto-Tupi-Guarani tatu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Tupi-Guaranitatuarmadillo

Words derived from “tatu”

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