Where does “li” come from?
li (Guinea-Bissau Creole) comes from Portuguese Ali, from Old Portuguese Ali, from Vulgar Latin *adlic, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
li (Guinea-Bissau Creole): here
Definitions
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Ancestry of “li”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | Ali | there (far from both the speaker and the interlocutor(s)) |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | Ali | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *adlic | — |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |