Where does “pipoca” come from?

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

pipoca (Spanish): popcorn

Definitions

  1. popcorn

Ancestry of “pipoca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesepipocapopcorn; small skin boil; tapeworm cyst embedded...
2Old Tupipi'pokathe sudden burst of a surface; popcorn
3Old Tupipiraskin
Every word from Old Tupi pira →Every word from Old Tupi pi'poka →Every word from Portuguese pipoca →