Where does “kùkuʼúne” come from?

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

kùkuʼúne (Taos): cocoa

Definitions

  1. cocoa

Ancestry of “kùkuʼúne”, 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-—
Every word from Proto-Nahuan *kakawa- →