Where does “banda” come from?
banda (Papiamentu) comes from Kabuverdianu banda, from Portuguese banda, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a — ox; aleph; alef.
banda (Papiamentu): next to; around; surroundings
Definitions
- next to; around; surroundings
Ancestry of “banda”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kabuverdianu | banda | side |
| 2 | Portuguese | banda | band, stripe; side; bend |
| 3 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 4 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 5 | Italian | là | there |
| 6 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 7 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 8 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 9 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 10 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 11 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 12 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 13 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 14 | Latin | A | — |
| 15 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | and, also |
| 16 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |
| 17 | Phoenician | 𐤀 | ox; aleph; alef |