Where does “SAMPA” come from?

SAMPA (English) comes from Portuguese São Paulo, from Portuguese São, from Old Portuguese são, from Latin sānus, from Proto-Indo-European swā-n- — healthy; whole; active; vigorous.

SAMPA (English): An alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters, to work around text encoding problems before the introduction of Unicode

Definitions

  1. An alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), but using only 7-bit ASCII characters, to work around text encoding problems before the introduction of Unicode

Ancestry of “SAMPA”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PortugueseSão PauloPaul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul
2PortugueseSãoforms the titles of male saints whose names begin...
3Old Portuguesesão—
4Latinsānussound in body, healthy, whole, well
5Proto-Indo-Europeanswā-n-healthy; whole; active; vigorous
Every word from Proto-Indo-European swā-n- →