The story
- Cantonese · borrowed from婆婆“maternal grandmother”
- Mandarin · borrowed from婆婆“husband's mother”
- English todaypo po
Borrowed from Mandarin 婆婆 (pópo, “husband's mother”), Cantonese 婆婆 (po⁴ po⁴⁻², “maternal grandmother”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.