Where does “levantar” come from?
levantar (Old Portuguese) comes from Vulgar Latin levantare, from Latin levāns, from Latin levō, from Latin lēvis, from Proto-Italic leɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European h₁léngʰus, from Proto-Indo-European h₁lengʷʰ- — light.
Ancestry of “levantar”, step by step
Words derived from “levantar”