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Where does “sonare” come from?

sonare (Latin) comes from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.

Ancestry of “sonare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
2Latinsonō—
3Proto-Italic*swonaō—
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