Where does “son” come from?
son (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese sõo, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
son (Galician): sound; inflection of ser:
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Definitions
- sound; inflection of ser:
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Ancestry of “son”, 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 | — |