Where does “El” come from?

El derives from Biblical Hebrew אֵל, a word of unknown origin whose meaning remains uncertain.

Ancestry of “El”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Spanish	él	he, him, masculine personal third person subject...
2	Old Spanish	ela	—
3	Latin	illa	nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative...
4	Latin	ille	that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
5	Latin	olle	Archaic form of ille
6	Proto-Italic	*olnos	—