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

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,

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