Where does “kakao” come from?

kakao (Swahili) comes from English cocoa, from Spanish Cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl, from Proto-Nahuan *kakawa-.

kakao (Swahili): cocoa

Definitions

  1. cocoa

Ancestry of “kakao”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcocoaThe dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of...
2SpanishCacaothe 655th most common surname in Guatemala
3Classical Nahuatlcacahuatlcacao, cacao bean
4Proto-Nahuan*kakawa-—

Words derived from “kakao”

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