Where does “tatumirĩ” come from?

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

tatumirĩ (Old Tupi): Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes trincinctus)

Definitions

  1. Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes trincinctus)

Ancestry of “tatumirĩ”, step by step

tatumirĩ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Tupi tatu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupitatuarmadillo
2FrenchPEBa system enabling a library to borrow a document...
3Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
4Old Tupipóhand
5Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
6Proto-Tupian*pohand

via Old Tupi mirĩ

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