Where does “so” come from?
so (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese sõo, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
so (Galician): alone; lonely, solitary; no more than; merely
Definitions
- alone; lonely, solitary; no more than; merely
Ancestry of “so”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | sõo | — |
| 2 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 3 | Latin | sonō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | — |