Where does “cumbuca” come from?

cumbuca (Portuguese) comes from Old Tupi kuîmbuka, from Old Tupi kuîa, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

cumbuca (Portuguese): bowl

Definitions

  1. bowl

Ancestry of “cumbuca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupikuîmbukabowl
2Old Tupikuîacalabash
3Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
4Old Tupihand
5Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
6Proto-Tupian*pohand
Every word from Proto-Tupian *poEvery word from Old Tupi -aEvery word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po
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