Where does “あお” come from?
あお (Old Japanese) comes from Proto-Japonic awo, from Spanish ahora, from Swedish å-, from Swedish å, from Swedish och, from Old Swedish ock, from Old Norse ok, from Old Norse svá — self (reflexive pronoun).
Ancestry of “あお”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Japonic | awo | blue, green |
| 2 | Spanish | ahora | now |
| 3 | Swedish | å- | on |
| 4 | Swedish | å | a river, a creek, a big stream; on |
| 5 | Swedish | och | and; used to connect two homogeneous words or... |
| 6 | Old Swedish | ock | — |
| 7 | Old Norse | ok | and; also, too; yoke |
| 8 | Old Norse | svá | so |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | swa | so, thus, in this manner |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | swē | like, similar to; just like, in the same manner... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | swē | self (reflexive pronoun) |