Where does “son” come from?
son (Old Irish) comes from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō.
son (Old Irish): clitic form of sodain
Ancestry of “son”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 2 | Latin | sonō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | — |