Where does “pipoca” come from?

pipoca (Portuguese) comes from Old Tupi pi'poka, from Old Tupi pira — skin.

pipoca (Portuguese): popcorn; small skin boil; tapeworm cyst embedded...

Definitions

  1. popcorn; small skin boil; tapeworm cyst embedded...

Ancestry of “pipoca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupipi'pokathe sudden burst of a surface; popcorn
2Old Tupipiraskin

Words derived from “pipoca”

Every word from Old Tupi pira →Every word from Old Tupi pi'poka →