Where does “tatuetê” come from?

tatuetê (Portuguese) comes from Old Tupi tatueté, from Old Tupi tatu, from French PEB, from Old Tupi -a, from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po — hand.

tatuetê (Portuguese): nine-banded armadillo

Definitions

  1. nine-banded armadillo

Ancestry of “tatuetê”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupitatueténine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)
2Old Tupitatuarmadillo
3FrenchPEBa system enabling a library to borrow a document...
4Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
5Old Tupipóhand
6Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
7Proto-Tupian*pohand
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