Where does “Tătulea” come from?

Tătulea (Romanian) comes from Romanian tatu, from French tatou, 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.

Ancestry of “Tătulea”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniantatuarmadillo
2Frenchtatouarmadillo
3Old Tupitatuarmadillo
4FrenchPEBa system enabling a library to borrow a document...
5Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
6Old Tupipóhand
7Proto-Tupi-Guarani*pohand
8Proto-Tupian*pohand
Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →