Etymology

tonka bean

Today it means: A black wrinkled seed of a neotropical legume tree of species Dipteryx odorata, used as a perfume and vanilla substitute due to its high coumarin content. Full definition →

Guyanese Creole English tonka ← Kari'na tonka
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Kari'na · derived fromtonka
  2. Guyanese Creole English · derived fromtonka
  3. English todaytonka bean

Likely from Guyanese Creole English tonka, from a Tupian language, perhaps Kari'na tonka.

Words from the same roots

Guyanese Creole Englishtonka all →

tonka

Kari'natonka all →

tonka

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.