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Where does “dar ao demo” come from?

dar ao demo (Galician) comes from Galician ao, from Galician a, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.

dar ao demo (Galician): to go to hell; to send to hell; to abhor; to...

Definitions

  1. to go to hell; to send to hell; to abhor; to...

Ancestry of “dar ao demo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianaoto the
2Galicianato, toward; introduces indirect object; used to...
3LatinAd—
4Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
5Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
6LatinolleArchaic form of ille
7Proto-Italic*olnos—
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