Where does “muamba” come from?

muamba (Portuguese) comes from Old Tupi pu'ama, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

muamba (Portuguese): a basket for commodity transportation

Definitions

  1. a basket for commodity transportation

Ancestry of “muamba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupipu'amaassault
2Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
3Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix
Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Old Tupi pu'ama →