Where does “soñar” come from?
soñar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese sonhar, from Latin somniō, from Latin somnium, from Latin somnus, from Proto-Italic swepnos, from Proto-Indo-European swépnos, from Proto-Indo-European swopnos, from Proto-Indo-European swep- — to sleep.
soñar (Galician): to dream; first/third-person singular future...
Definitions
- to dream; first/third-person singular future...
Ancestry of “soñar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | sonhar | — |
| 2 | Latin | somniō | — |
| 3 | Latin | somnium | dream, vision; fantasy, daydream |
| 4 | Latin | somnus | sleep; drowsiness, slumber sloth, idleness; death |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | swepnos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | swépnos | sleep, slumber |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | swopnos | dream |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | swep- | to sleep |