Where does “ana” come from?

ana (Cypriot Arabic) comes from Arabic أَنَا, from Proto-Semitic ʔanāku, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic ˀanāku.

ana (Cypriot Arabic): I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Definitions

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Ancestry of “ana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ArabicأَنَاI
2Proto-SemiticʔanākuI
3Proto-Afro-Asiaticˀanāku—

Words derived from “ana”

Every word from Proto-Afro-Asiatic ˀanāku →Every word from Proto-Semitic ʔanāku →Every word from Arabic أَنَا →