Where does “zibia” come from?
zibia (Kabuverdianu) comes from Portuguese assobiar, from Latin assibilo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
zibia (Kabuverdianu): whistle
Definitions
- whistle
Ancestry of “zibia”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | assobiar | to whistle; to whistle a song; to produce... |
| 2 | Latin | assibilo | I hiss, murmur or whisper to, at or upon |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |