Where does “yega” come from?
yega (Papiamentu) comes from Spanish llegar, from Latin applicō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
yega (Papiamentu): to arrive
Definitions
- to arrive
Ancestry of “yega”, step by step
yega traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish llegar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | llegar | to arrive, get; to get up to, to go up to; to be... |
| 2 | Latin | applicō | to apply |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |