Where does “nela” come from?
nela (Galician) comes from Galician ela, from Old Portuguese ela, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
nela (Galician): in her, in it
Ancestry of “nela”, step by step
nela traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician ela
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Galician | ela | she |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | ela | she |
| 3 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Galician en
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Galician | en | in; When preceding a complement of a verb it can... |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | en | in |
| 3 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 4 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |