Where does “gahió” come from?

gahió (Pirahã) comes from Portuguese avião, from French avion, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

gahió (Pirahã): airplane

Definitions

  1. airplane

Ancestry of “gahió”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseaviãoairplane; Obsolete spelling of haviam
2Frenchavionaeroplane
3Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
4EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
5Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →