Where does “nadar” come from?
nadar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese nadar, from Latin natare, from Latin nato, from Latin no, from Proto-Italic snāō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₂- — to swim; to float.
nadar (Galician): to swim; first/third-person singular future...
Definitions
- to swim; first/third-person singular future...
Ancestry of “nadar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | nadar | — |
| 2 | Latin | natare | present active infinitive of natō; second-person... |
| 3 | Latin | nato | I swim, I float; I stream, I flow; dative... |
| 4 | Latin | no | to swim; to float; to sail, flow, fly, etc |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | snāō | swim; bathe |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)neh₂- | to swim; to float |