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Where does “sonar” come from?
sonar (Old Catalan) comes from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.
Ancestry of “sonar”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
sonō
to sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
2
Proto-Italic
*swonaō
to sound, resound
Words derived from “sonar”
sonar
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