Where does “soar” come from?

soar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese sõar, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

soar (Galician): to sound, to ring; to be heard; to ring a bell

Definitions

  1. to sound, to ring; to be heard; to ring a bell

Ancestry of “soar”, step by step

soar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Portuguese sõar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesesõar—
2Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
3Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound

via Latin sōlum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsōlumbottom, ground, base, foundation, bed
2Proto-Indo-Europeanswol-sole; sole of the foot

Words derived from “soar”

Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaō →Every word from Latin sonō →Every word from Old Portuguese sõar →