Where does “ça” come from?
ça (Catalan) comes from Latin hāc, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic, from Proto-Italic hek(e), from Proto-Indo-European gʰi-ḱe, from Proto-Indo-European ḱe, from Middle English kyt — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
ça (Catalan): here; in this place
Definitions
- here; in this place
Ancestry of “ça”, step by step
ça traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin hāc
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | hāc | this way; these; in this place (or way) |
| 2 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 3 | Latin | heic | — |
| 4 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 8 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 9 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 10 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Latin Canis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | Canis | a dog, a hound animal |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | δρόμος | race, running; racetrack; course, path |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 4 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |