Where does “ai” come from?
ai (Dutch) comes from Portuguese aí, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
ai (Dutch): pale-throated sloth, Bradypus tridactylus
Definitions
- pale-throated sloth, Bradypus tridactylus
Ancestry of “ai”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | aí | there; towards the second person; then |
| 2 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 3 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |