Where does “calma lá” come from?
calma lá (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia — in.
calma lá (Portuguese): wait; calm yourself
Definitions
- wait; calm yourself
Ancestry of “calma lá”, step by step
calma lá traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese lá
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 2 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 3 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 4 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 5 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 6 | English | avie | emulously |
| 7 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 8 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 9 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 10 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Portuguese calma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | calma | calm; tranquility; heat produced by the sun |
| 2 | Late Latin | cauma | heat of the midday sun; heat; heat of the day |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | καῦμα | burning, glow, heat; fever; holes cut by cautery |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | καίω | I light, kindle, set on fire; I burn, burn up; I... |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | *káyyō | — |