Where does “mesmo” come from?
mesmo (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese mesmo, from Vulgar Latin metipsimus, from Latin ipse, from Proto-Italic *e(s)peso.
mesmo (Galician): same; self; even
Ancestry of “mesmo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | mesmo | — |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | metipsimus | same |
| 3 | Latin | ipse | himself, herself, itself, the very, the actual;... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *e(s)peso | — |