Where does “là” come from?
là (French) comes from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
là (French): there; here, present
Definitions
- there; here, present
Ancestry of “là”, step by step
là traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian là
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | là | there |
| 2 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 3 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 4 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 5 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 6 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 7 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 8 | English | avie | emulously |
| 9 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 10 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 11 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 12 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 13 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via French rousse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | rousse | feminine singular of roux; redhead |
| 2 | French | roux | russet; ginger; redhead |
| 3 | Old French | ros | reed, tooth of a weaver's comb |
| 4 | Latin | russus | red, reddish-brown |
| 5 | Latin | Russia | — |
| 6 | Old East Slavic | Русь | Rus; Ruthenia |
| 7 | Finnish | ruotsi | Swedish |
| 8 | Proto-Finnic | *roocci | Swede originally anyone from Roslagen |
| 9 | Old Swedish | roþs- | related to rowing |
| 10 | Old Norse | róðr | rowing |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | rōþrą | oar; rudder |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁reh₁- | to row; to separate; loose, sparse, rare |
via French place
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | place | place, square, plaza, piazza; place, space, room;... |
| 2 | Old French | place | place; location |
| 3 | Latin | platēa | broad way, street |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πλατεῖα | feminine nominative singular of πλατύς; feminine... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | πλατύς | wide, broad; flat, level; broad-shouldered |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pléth₂us | flat, broad |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pleth₂- | flat |