Where does “tatu” come from?

tatu (Romanian) comes 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.

tatu (Romanian): armadillo

Definitions

  1. armadillo

Ancestry of “tatu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtatouarmadillo
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

Words derived from “tatu”

Every word from Proto-Tupian *po →Every word from Old Tupi -a →Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po →