Where does “pipoca” come from?
pipoca (Spanish) comes from Portuguese pipoca, from Old Tupi pi'poka, from Old Tupi pira — skin.
pipoca (Spanish): popcorn
Ancestry of “pipoca”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | pipoca | popcorn; small skin boil; tapeworm cyst embedded... |
| 2 | Old Tupi | pi'poka | the sudden burst of a surface; popcorn |
| 3 | Old Tupi | pira | skin |