Where does “ena” come from?
ena (Old Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese a, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
Ancestry of “ena”, step by step
ena traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Portuguese a
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | a | to; towards; Alternative spelling of á |
| 2 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 3 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Old Portuguese en
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | en | in |
| 2 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 3 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |