Reconstruction:Proto-Mixe-Zoque/kakawa

This Proto-Mixe-Zoque entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mixe-Zoque

Noun

*kakawa

1. cacao

Descendants

• → Classical Nahuatl: cacahuatl
  • → Spanish: cacahuate, cacahuete
    • Aragonese: cascagüet, calcagüet, cacagüet
    • Asturian: cacagüés
    • Basque: kakahuete
    • Catalan: cacauet
    • French: cacahuète
      • Luxembourgish: Kakuett
    • Galician: cacahuete
  • → Spanish: cacao (see there for further descendants)
• → Yucatec Maya: kakaw

References

• Lyle Campbell, Terrence Kaufman, A Linguistic Look at the Olmecs, [1]