Where does “assai” come from?
assai (French) comes from Italian assai, from Latin ad satis, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
assai (French): assai
Ancestry of “assai”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | assai | very |
| 2 | Latin | ad satis | to sufficiency |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |