Where does “sombra” come from?
sombra (French) comes from French sombrer, from Middle French soussombrer, from Middle French soussoubrer, from Portuguese soçobrar, from Spanish zozobrar, from Old Spanish sozobrar, from Old Catalan sotsobrar, from Catalan sotsobre.
sombra (French): third-person singular past historic of sombrer
Definitions
- third-person singular past historic of sombrer
Ancestry of “sombra”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sombrer | to sink; to whittle away |
| 2 | Middle French | soussombrer | — |
| 3 | Middle French | soussoubrer | — |
| 4 | Portuguese | soçobrar | To capsize, keel over |
| 5 | Spanish | zozobrar | to capsize, founder, sink; to fail; to worry, or... |
| 6 | Old Spanish | sozobrar | — |
| 7 | Old Catalan | sotsobrar | — |
| 8 | Catalan | sotsobre | capsizing |
| 9 | Catalan | sobre | on, on top of; over, above; about |
| 10 | Latin | super | "accusative" above, on the top of, upon;... |
| 11 | Latin | eks-uper | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | upéri | alternative reconstruction of *upér |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |