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Where does “aspirar” come from?

aspirar (Catalan) comes from Latin aspīrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

aspirar (Catalan): to aspire; to inhale; to aspirate

Definitions

  1. to aspire; to inhale; to aspirate

Ancestry of “aspirar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaspīrō—
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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