Where does “natà” come from?

natà (Neapolitan) comes from Latin natare, from Latin nato, from Latin no, from Proto-Italic snāō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₂- — to swim; to float.

natà (Neapolitan): to swim

Definitions

  1. to swim

Ancestry of “natà”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnatarepresent active infinitive of natō; second-person...
2LatinnatoI swim, I float; I stream, I flow; dative...
3Latinnoto swim; to float; to sail, flow, fly, etc
4Proto-Italicsnāōswim; bathe
5Proto-Indo-European(s)neh₂-to swim; to float
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)neh₂- →Every word from Proto-Italic snāō →Every word from Latin no →