The story
- Puerto Rican Spanish · borrowed frompiragua
- English todaypiragua
From Puerto Rican Spanish piragua, from pirámide (“pyramid”) + agua (“water”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
piragua
Today it means: A Puerto Rican frozen dessert, shaped like a pyramid, made of shaved ice and covered with fruit-flavored syrup. Full definition →
Puerto Rican Spanish piragua