Where does “ソナタ” come from?
ソナタ (Japanese) comes from Italian sonata, from Italian sonare, from Latin sonāre, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
ソナタ (Japanese): sonata
Ancestry of “ソナタ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | sonata | sonata; feminine singular of sonato |
| 2 | Italian | sonare | Alternative form of suonare |
| 3 | Latin | sonāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 5 | Latin | sonō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | — |