Where does “ä” come from?
ä (Finnish) comes from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus — in.
ä (Finnish): a, per, each
Definitions
- a, per, each
Ancestry of “ä”, step by step
ä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German a
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 2 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 3 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 4 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 5 | English | avie | emulously |
| 6 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 7 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 8 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 9 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Swedish ä
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | ä | The second last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronounced when long, when short. In Central Swedish, these phonemes are partially merged with long and short |