Where does “pindoba” come from?

pindoba (Portuguese) comes from Old Tupi pindoba, from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

pindoba (Portuguese): Attalea oleifera, a variety of cocosoid palm tree endemic to Brazil

Definitions

  1. Attalea oleifera, a variety of cocosoid palm tree endemic to Brazil

Ancestry of “pindoba”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupipindobapalm tree of the species Attalea oleifera
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 pindoba →