Where does “ajutà” come from?
ajutà (Neapolitan) comes from Latin adiutare, from Latin adiuto, from Latin adiuvo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
ajutà (Neapolitan): to help
Definitions
- to help
Ancestry of “ajutà”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adiutare | present active infinitive of adiūtō;... |
| 2 | Latin | adiuto | I help, serve, assist; dative masculine singular... |
| 3 | Latin | adiuvo | I help, assist; I cheer |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |