Where does “desafortunat” come from?
desafortunat (Catalan) comes from Catalan afortunat, from Catalan a-, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
desafortunat (Catalan): unfortunate
Ancestry of “desafortunat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Catalan | afortunat | fortunate |
| 2 | Catalan | a- | a-; Used to make verbs from adjectives and nouns |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |