Where does “son” come from?

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

son (Galician): sound; inflection of ser: ## first-person...

Definitions

  1. sound; inflection of ser: ## first-person...

Ancestry of “son”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesesõo—
2Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
3Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
4Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound
Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaō →Every word from Latin sonō →Every word from Latin sonus →