Where does “sonar” come from?
sonar (Old Spanish) comes from Latin sonare, from Latin sono, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.
Ancestry of “sonar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | sonare | present active infinitive of sonō; second-person... |
| 2 | Latin | sono | dative singular of sonus; ablative singular of... |
| 3 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 4 | Latin | sonō | to sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context) |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | to sound, resound |