Where does “colla” come from?
colla (Italian) comes from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
colla (Italian): glue or similar sticky material; size; A rope...
Definitions
- glue or similar sticky material; size; A rope...
Ancestry of “colla”, step by step
colla traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian là
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | là | there |
| 2 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 3 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 4 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 5 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 6 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 7 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 8 | English | avie | emulously |
| 9 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 10 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 11 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 12 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 13 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via Italian con
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | con | with, together; coxed |
| 2 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 3 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 7 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 8 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 9 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |